lirik lagu luis j. rodriguez - tia chucha
every few years
tía chucha would visit the family
in a tornado of song
and open us up
as if we were an overripe avocado
she was a dumpy, black~haired
creature of upheaval, who often came unannounced
with a bag of presents
including home~made perfumes and colognes
that smelled something like
rotting fish
on a hot day at the tuna cannery
they said she was crazy. oh sure, she once ran out naked
to catch the postman with a letter that didn’t belong to us
i mean, she had this annoying habit of boarding city buses
and singing at the top of her voice—one bus driver
even refused to go on until she got off
but crazy?
to me, she was the wisp of the wind’s freedom
a music~maker who once tried to teach me guitar
but ended up singing and singing
me listening, and her singing
until i put the instrument down
and watched the clock cl!ck the lesson time away
i didn’t learn guitar, but i learned something
about her craving for the new, the unbroken
so she could break it. periodically she banished herself
from the family—and was the better for it
i secretly admired tía chucha
she was always quick with a story
another “pepito” joke or a hand~written lyric
that she would produce regardless of the occasion
she was a despot of desire
uncontainable as a splash of water
on a varnished table
i wanted to remove the layers
of unnatural seeing
the way tía chucha beheld
the world, with first eyes
like an infant who can discern
the elixir within milk
i wanted to be one of the prizes
she stuffed into her rumpled bag
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