Rachel's Floetry

  • Mama’s Favorite Flavor is Grape

    Mama’s favorite beans when cooking are black beans. Jade Seneca, the Chinese place a block up, and around the corner, she orders chicken and broccoli. When someone’s sick, we order chicken and rice soup. Sometimes she makes Lipton with a packet of Sazon and sofrito, a cube or two. Breakfast on the go is a…

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  • Pirates

    White men tryna kill my mother – my mamasita. Not with guns, not with knives, but with paper.   It’s like they comin’ for us.   They know I’ve wet my toes in middle class waters, coming from a pair of sneakers a year, hand me downs, and a brown box from the church, full…

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