GT Velasco: in response to Melinda Luisa de Jesus

in response to ""hay(na)ku brainwash" (2018) by Melinda Luisa de Jesus

Mirror mirror next to the wall

I'm not the fairest

Not at all 

My face neck and arms brown from the CA sun

My belly splits in two rolls

Poganda ka
You're the one

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GT Velasco is the author of UNSENT LETTERS: Selected Poems. She is working on a creative nonfiction genre called #speculativerealness for her memoir #TheCareAndFeedingOfGTVelasco.