{"id":2470,"date":"2022-03-19T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spanglishvoces.com\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2022-04-06T21:54:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T01:54:17","slug":"meaning-and-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spanglishvoces.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/19\/meaning-and-mayhem\/","title":{"rendered":"MEAN\u00b7ING AND MAY\u00b7HEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI had no idea how much more dying was on the way.\u201c
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014Tim Seibles <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s reimagine a change in title. Let\u2019s force a real shift
\n<\/span><\/span>in mindset. The etymology of the three words: an ambush;\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ban Law Enforcement Officer from our vocabulary. The\u00a0resistance
\n<\/span><\/span>and attacks on the rhetoric alone\u2014much less the system, an ambush.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Can we deploy UN Peacekeepers onto American soil? Can they make
\n<\/span><\/span>Blackness in America not another pathway leading into an ambush?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

One disagreement. One fight. Not again! Then again. Baby fuck
\n<\/span><\/span>me. Fuck you!! Our words once grounding, elevated into ambush. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With his Peacemaker revolver, Wyatt Earp killed three cowboys at the
\n<\/span><\/span>O.K. Corral. The story goes, he and the others walked right into that ambush. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Darling, what\u2019s a six-letter word for surprise? Think surprise
\n<\/span><\/span>attack. Think, to surround, to assault. Oh! Oh! Ambush.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Three shots on the foot, two on the chest, one to the calf, abdomen,
\n<\/span><\/span>and scalp. Eight rounds stopped the Pulse nightclub shooter\u2019s ambush. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The way the tension between us invaded and shattered our
\n<\/span><\/span>home. Say overwhelming. Say sudden. Say violent. Say ambush. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Twelve shots fired: ten pierced black flesh. A car wreck, a distressed home
\n<\/span><\/span>invasion call, the white officer\u2019s gun draw; his gun\u2019s recoil: much like an ambush. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Graffiti artist suffers sudden cardiac death. Police chased and tased
\n<\/span><\/span>the tagger of the abandoned McDonald\u2019s I\u2019d visit. Unlike an ambush,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

unlike a hail of bullets aimed at an unsuspecting crowd, how my city turned
\n<\/span><\/span>vandalism to outrage, to protests, to farewells, to fine art, define ambush.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Trayvon could\u2019ve been me; my son. The pile of deaths that followed reminds
\n<\/span><\/span>me my black body remains subject to vigilante attacks, any type of ambush.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\"\"Gustavo Adolfo Aybar\u2019s first poetry collection, We Seek Asylum, was the 2016 Grand Prize Winner for Poetry, Willow Books Literature Award and published in 2017. His chapbook, Between Line Breaks, was published by Spartan Press in 2016. As a Dominican poet, he has been a member of the Latino Writers Collective, plus received fellowships from Cave Canem and Artist Inc. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in !Manteca!: An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, Primera P\u00e1gina: Poetry from the Latino Heartland, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History & Culture, Salem Press, ABC-CLIO, Asymptote, EZRA, InTranslation, and other journals and anthologies. His newest manuscript is an interactive, hybrid collection related to his law enforcement experience. Aybar is also working on a couple of illustrated children\u2019s books, a father\/son collection of essays, and on translating more texts from Mexican author\/playwright Glafira Rocha.\u00a0His first kid\u2019s book, Same or Different about blending families after divorce will be completed in 2021.<\/h6>\n
You can follow him on Instagram\u00a0@gustavoadolfoaybar<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI had no idea how much more dying was on the way.\u201c \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014Tim Seibles Let\u2019s reimagine a change in title. Let\u2019s force a real shift in mindset. The etymology of the three words: an ambush;\u00a0 ban Law Enforcement Officer from our vocabulary. 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