{"id":1232,"date":"2020-06-15T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T20:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spanglishvoces.com\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:12:47","slug":"williamsburg-bklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spanglishvoces.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/williamsburg-bklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMSBURG, BKLYN"},"content":{"rendered":"

You came here as a tourist<\/span>
\nAnd you fell in love with the flavor of fr\u00edo fr\u00edo de crema<\/em><\/span>
\nAnd the creatures you had only heard of but never seen<\/span>
\nThere is history in all her corners<\/span><\/p>\n

She is composed of everything worth writing home about<\/span>
\nYour mother beams, for she is proud<\/span>
\nFor you decided to chase your dreams and leave your town<\/span>
\nLook at you, in Williamsburg!<\/span><\/p>\n

But that wasn’t good enough<\/span>
\nYou had to gut her out.<\/span>
\nThe tubs weren’t deep enough<\/span>
\nThe cabinets weren’t really your style<\/span>
\nYou needed her streets to be thinner, because bikes are more your thing<\/span>
\nYou pounded her walls out<\/span>
\nUnder the concept of open space<\/span>
\nRipped open her blouse and exposed her bricks<\/span>
\nLaid your head in her bosom and proclaimed her yours<\/span><\/p>\n

Bragged about her<\/span>
\nAnd all the things that you have found<\/span>
\nForgetting she had a lover before you ever came around<\/span>
\nHe was shot in the soul, with rent he couldn\u2019t afford<\/span>
\nHe died of sadness and bled out stories<\/span>
\nIn his last breath he called out for Los Sures<\/em><\/span>
\nYou asked Williamsburg who that was<\/span>
\nShe shrugged claiming she didn\u2019t know<\/span>
\nShe claimed she loved you so<\/span>
\nThat she loved YOU, forever<\/span><\/p>\n

You called 311 on her<\/span>
\nClaimed her Salsa on Saturdays was abusive to your ears<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u00c9l les daba muy mal trato,
\ny a su negra le peg\u00f3 \u2026
\nNo le pegue a la negra<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Then you caressed her skyline<\/span>
\nAnd photographed her<\/span>
\nShowed her off to your friends<\/span>
\nYou even flew your mom in to see her<\/span>
\nShe made a bow out of construction tape to hide the stitches on her temple<\/span>
\nFrom where you beat into her your definitions of who she was supposed to be<\/span>
\nYou made a glass circus out of her ghetto<\/span>
\nYou dressed up her hoodrats as unicorns<\/span>
\nShe ought to be grateful you made her transform<\/span>
\nShe was forgotten<\/span>
\nBroken and alone<\/span>
\nNobody who was anybody wanted to ever call her a home<\/span>
\nBut since you paid for her<\/span>
\nYou reserve the right to leave her<\/span><\/p>\n

When this fever passes<\/span>
\nYour youth dwindles<\/span>
\nAnd when the night time is no longer a good time<\/span>
\nYou will pack your bags and walk away<\/span>
\nAnd she will cry and beg you to stay<\/span>
\nSpeak of the changes she made for you<\/span>
\nYou will claim you love her, you really do<\/span>
\nBut home is where the heart is<\/span>
\nYou found in her your dreams<\/span>
\nYou danced with her on clouds<\/span>
\nBut when it comes to setting roots<\/span>
\nThat is a thing to do in one’s hometown<\/span><\/p>\n

Williamsburg will strip nude for you<\/span>
\nAnd beg you to touch her, to want her like you once did<\/span>
\nShe will remind you about how she gave up<\/span>
\nThe avenue of Puerto Rico for you<\/span>
\nHer only desire was your rejoice<\/span>
\nSigh and tell Williamsburg you miss your home<\/span>
\nYou will pack and go away<\/span>
\nWilliamsburg will remain<\/span>
\nQuiet and complaisant<\/span>
\nFor her next abuser to take your place<\/span>
\nShe will pitch herself as what you made her<\/span>
\nHoping to attract another you<\/span>
\nWhoring away her history to the highest bidder<\/span>
\nSo when you are old and on your land<\/span>
\nrocking slowly in your rocking chair<\/span>
\nYour grandchildren will ask of your travels<\/span>
\nAnd on your mind she will be there<\/span>
\nWilliamsburg, and her ever-lit skyline<\/span>
\nJust some old story for you to tell<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"Oelania Rubino<\/a> is a writer and an artist. She was born in Barahona, Dominican Republic and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York at the age of eight. Her work has been published by TeenInk Magazine, theGrio, and The Dominican Writers Association. She is the 2019-2020 recipient of The Doris Lippman Prize in Creative Writing. She has a bachelor\u2019s degree in advertising from St. John\u2019s University, and is working on her first novel while pursuing an MFA from City College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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