#i tried an experiment in form here based on the ubiquitous in this house yard signs

[ecc-poetry]

sin hogar / in this house

elisa chavez

Todo el mundo merece una casa

pero no quieres pagarla.

¡Qué caro es el camino alto!

Tu insistes: ningún cambio sin reembolso.

Pues sí, ¡tiremos la persona!

¿sabes qué elles cuestan demasiado, con sus recursos

y uñas sucias? vale, creo que lo sucio

es tus locuras: son tu sagrado, tu biblia; envías los versos

a la alcaldesa apuñaladas con miles agujas.

Creo que es más fácil culpar le desdichade que abrir la billetera las setenta veces siete de Jesús.

Creo que inventas monstruos

y les das las caras de vecines.

In this house we believe:

we've paid enough.

What about mismanagement?

Lying is illegal, and so is sitting down.

Trees are people too.

Loaves and fishes are nonrenewable resources.

That's just science, unless it's social science.

Alert for young single women: Men with the faces of dogs have been spotted in the park,

Men stuck with needles go door to door selling magazines. They let themselves in, flay my flatscreen in half, machete me and drink blood from my porcelain lungs, police say there's nothing they can do. A hole in the road has gained sentience and gravels my mouth while I sleep. My neighbors applaud, wokefully ringing my bed. Wake up! The city is dying!

The apartment blocks are maggot-ridden, wobbling with braids of concrete, their windows are packed full of bodies with limbs fused to bone looking for handouts desecrating and their teeth noise complaint and their self-respect rotting in piles and the teeth say it's time to make neighbors of you all.

#miss translated #nimby #nimbyism #Spanish poetry #cw: gore #elisa chavez #i tried an experiment in form here based on the ubiquitous in this house yard signs #in seattle these signs often occur alongside ones that say NO UPZONING aka we have no more room at this inn #in recent years the pure cruelty and malice towards my unhoused neighbors has honestly shocked me which #is that my privilege sure #but I do believe it's getting worse