Our New Anahuac

Mi querida gente: The jig is up.
Pundits of monstrous intellect, such as Glenn Beck, have somehow figured out our secret plan to take over the country that they rightfully possess and govern. You know the secret plan? THE PLAN? Come on. No se hagan.
We can finally stop pretending that our ‘buelitas didn’t read us El Plan [...]

Blanca Alanis is the owner of Heights Books-Libros, located at 520 E. 20th St., Houston, TX 77008.  Buy books from her.  This is her poem, Voz De Mi Gente.
 
VOZ DE MI GENTE
Por mi gente, si no yo, quien?  Por su honor y su sudor.
Dime, a quien le vale eso.  A quien le valen mi padres
y [...]

For Our Restoration and Our Future Generations
We dream and teach our original creation
The Creator planted us as indigenous mais
Foreseeing in our future our autonomous pais
We were watered with the oil called sangre
Then man and woman were born
                          and for each other they had hambre
Soon they united the ome and the teotl.
Then a prince was born;
                             then [...]

Birds and the flowers are the height of beauty on earth
But jade is the symbol of noble beauty by birth
And so your skirt of jade makes me cower
While in your pockets live the birds and the flowers
Because all claims to beauty belongs to you
And I love to know that our love is so true
 
Your gaze [...]

Dear Sam,
When you needed a place to go we let you in our home.  You were down on your luck and needed a place to build from.
You said that you would respect the rules of the home, and that you would learn the customs of the home, but you didn’t.
You kept letting friends in.  We [...]