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Desert Verse David Altamirano
from Mirage 2021
The Heart of My Roots Nelida Amaro ________________________________________ Suede Pair of Pants Kira Gee 1st Place in Poetry, Student Contest
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For the girl Who found success For the girl Living in excess The Lord gave her love The devil gave her money She asked them both a question That lost her milk and honey
There was only one thing The girl truly wanted One forbidden ghost Who left her feeling haunted So she bet all her nobility On a death denying dance Waltzing away her wealth For a Suede pair of pants
She won that day Completely satisfied The pants walked away To win another prize
So she picked up all her pieces Soaked from rainy weather And used all of her heartbreak To glue them back together As soon as she was whole again Her fingers missed the fabric Her thoughts became obsessive Potential erratic
For the girl who lost all her dignity And gained it back through tattered rants Then threw it all away again For a Suede pair of pants