Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort tired from the pain and hurt of being a man in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort tired from the pain and hurt of being a man in the poem I transform myself into a woman.
Jimmy Santiago Baca

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And so I pray I am today as honest
with myself with life all around me and below and above me
with all who I encounter.
- Jimmy Santiago Baca

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort tired from the pain and hurt of being a man in the poem I transform myself into a woman. Jimmy Santiago Baca

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort tired from the pain and hurt of being a man in the poem I transform myself into a woman.
Jimmy Santiago Baca