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Boys

This poem describes Central American boys who are illiterate and ill-nourished, like pale ghosts abandoned under brush. They are the product of violence, glancing at each other in the streets knowing their fathers will never return. Though facing hardships, they also possess a brilliant genesis and the memory of enduring difficult journeys like stowaways.

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Boys

This poem describes Central American boys who are illiterate and ill-nourished, like pale ghosts abandoned under brush. They are the product of violence, glancing at each other in the streets knowing their fathers will never return. Though facing hardships, they also possess a brilliant genesis and the memory of enduring difficult journeys like stowaways.

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Central American Boys

BY WI LLI AM ARC H I LA

They the product they pack,

chronic culprit in love with bullets

plucked like stars.

They the glance at each other

crossing the street, the way they know

their fathers will never come back.

Profanity, yes. Illiterate, ill-nourished,

most of them, most definitely. In addition

the brilliant genesis of Odysseus.

They small ghosts

like pale plates of water abandoned

under the brush. It might as well

be a jar of snares mosquitoes

damn mosquitoes to get rid of,

draining the blood for eggs.

They
the memory of a stowaway

hitting the ground again

and again.

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