Julián David Bañuelos

Your father and I share names (government names)(I hope he’s well)(I hope you’re well)(You and I both always kept to the shadows but shined in the presence of prophecy)(Vroom Vroom)(T-tops off )(Quaker Street chasin’)( Johnny in the front)(I’m knee to chest behind the driver’s seat) (Peter tucked next to me)(The bass)(That fucking bass)(Rattling the inside …

Somewhere . . . Someone remembers it was the day we visited your mom at work. The old Montford unit. I’ve driven pass that sonuva’ bitch everyday ¡chingao! twice a day for twenty-plus seasons while the burnt sky arched flat, bright with angry love, and I never told y’all que tenía familia . . . …