“The fibroid shrunk one centimeter,” my gynecologist said. I stopped at Clinica de la Raza, because I had an appointment that day for a follow up on an ultrasound that was performed prior to my surgery. My gynecologist told me I had a cyst in my left ovary, we just don’t know where or what size.

“What is the amerikkkan dream? families risking their life for the amerikkkkan dream, the same dream all of his hear about but few of us get to see ..” Muteado Silencio, Po’ Poet & Land Liberator with POOR Magazine/Homefulness

Editors Note: Mr. Jose Villarreal is one of several power-FUL PNNPlantation prison correspondents. As currently and formerly incarcerated poor and indigenous peoples in struggle and resistance with all plantation systems in Amerikkka, POOR Magazine stands in solidarity with all folks on the other side of the razor wire plantation.

Chicano Nations: the Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature by Harissa K Lopex. New York University Press 2011. 208 Pgs.

MI HISTORIA...

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Bueno parte de mi historia .

ERNESTO .El nombre que eligieron mis padres,

cuando naci eso hace ya mas de 52 años.

Ahora tengo un nombre espiritual que es YEI CIPACTLI en LENGUA NAHUATL

SIGNIFICA 3 COCODRILO, el # 3 YEI significa : CREACION

Y COCODRILO : donde se origino la vida y que emergio del agua yen su espalda traia los 4

colores del maiz.

Mi motivo principal de estar aqui, fue la noticia de que un bebe estaba en camino y seria el nuevo