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Poema Code Switching
By Aylin Soto-Aleman, Mercedes Caballero, Jesus Martinez, Marta Silva, Alex Alejandre
16.4.15

El final de una etapa
The end,
The beginning of a new journey
un camino
A un mundo extranjero
Un deseo, un sueño
A dream
Haciendo mi propio path
un camino
rostros nuevos , new failures
historias nuevas , new experiences
a sequel to my story, con hojas rotas
y mojadas    


INMIGRACION

La memoria es un salto
entre continentes
crossing invisible borders
swimming in the rios
corriendo debajo del sol

La memoria es los abuelitos
ancestors cooking arroz y frijoles,
flan, driving through for hamburgers,
popcorn, sipping on horchata
Basilica
No todo lo que brilla es oro
not all rainbows and butterflies,
Clarita y sus cien años
Ruben y sus Tacos del Camino Real
El rancho
Midnight movies
Quiero a quien me quiera
It’s been a long day, without you my friend
Mexicanos al grito de guerra
Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
Tepechitlan, Jerecuaro, Guanajuato
Long Beach, Argentine, KCK,
Chihuahua,
A Distance Between Us
El puente, the bridge.
Three Little Pigs en casa, at home,
don't step out marranitos,
la llorona te va a llevar

Memory is a leap
between continents
Cruzando fronteras invisibles,
Nadando en los rivers
Running under the sun

Born in different places
Pero las mismas intenciones
This was created by my spanish class and I.
Con ciudades y autores frecuentadosVenecia / Guanajuato / Maupassant /
Leningrado / Sousándrade / Berlín /
Cortázar / Bioy Casares / Medellín /
Lisboa / Sartre / Oslo / Valle Inclán / 

Kafka / Managua / Faulkner / Paul Celan /
Ítalo Svevo / Quito / Bergamín /
Buenos Aires / La Habana / Graham Greene /
Copenhague / Quiroga / Thomas Mann /

Onetti / Siena / Shakespeare / Anatole 
France / Saramago / Atenas / Heinrich Böll /
Cádiz / Martí / Gonzalo de Berceo /

París / Vallejo / Alberti / Santa Cruz
de Tenerife / Roma / Marcel Proust /
Pessoa / Baudelaire / Montevideo
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2021
Postcard poet today
Maybe Studio Ghibli
I was in Nara once
Spirited Away

I keep hanging out
In la oficina
I think something's coming
But I also have my doubts

               Guanajuato
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
Socrates was physically ugly
But he had logos in his soul
Twisted Sister on my stereo
A little Rock N' Roll

We're not gonna take it
Gonna Overthrow
Chinese scholar's garden
Portland, progress, Poe

2/3s of Springsteen's fans
Europe, not the USA
Stockholm in the summer
Bangkok y Taipei

Mr. David Markson
Gonna do you right
Guanajuato, Mexico
The Guardian in the Night

                   Warning!
Qualyxian Quest May 2020
My Mexican friends today
His eyes blue, My eyes verde
My mother's brown, his cafe
Guanajuato y Monterrey

               Quetzalcoatl!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
Socrates was physically ugly
But he had logos in his soul
Twisted Sister on my stereo
A little Rock N' Roll

We're not gonna take it
Gonna Overthrow
Chinese scholar's garden
Portland, progress, Poe

2/3s of Springsteen's fans
Europe, not the USA
Stockholm in the summer
Bangkok y Taipei

Mr. David Markson
Gonna do you right
Guanajuato, Mexico
The Guardian in the Night

                   Warning!
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2020
The sadness never far away
But I can smile too

You shoulda seen the sky tonight
Carolina blue

He was from Guanajuato
We talked of Mexico City

The girls, the flowers, the flamenco dress
Que bonita! O so pretty.

I walked home alone as usual
Lonely as a cloud

Dylan on my stereo
Think I'll play it loud

I'm humble nearly all the time
But my boys they make me proud

— The End —