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Mexican in Maine by Pauline Campos

Her Spanglish War Cry

April 10, 2016

 

Ladies? Repeat after me.

 

I am a

Chingona.

A Hell-Raiser.

A Bitch who takes no offense when you call me

the very word hurled at me as an insult.

My smile confuses

You.

My thanks steals

The wind in your sails and cools my

Cheeks.

This is where I leave you,

Blinking and reassessing, only because

I don't feel like wasting my time waiting for you to figure out

I never needed anyone's approval

to

move

Forward

But my own.

In Poetry Tags pauline campos, pauline m campos, aspiringmama, aspiring mama, poetry, chingona, bad words for good reasons, bitch, bitch redefined, spanglish, Mexican, latina, feminism, feminist
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