Boy meets girl. Leos Carax, 1984.

Dulzura

(Sandra Cisneros)

Make love to me in Spanish.

Not with that other tongue.

I want you juntito a mi

tender like the language

crooned to babies.

I want to be that

lullabied, mi bien

querido, that loved.

I want you inside

the mouth of my heart,

inside the harp of my wrists,

the sweet meat of the mango,

in the gold that dangles

from my ears and neck.

Say my name. Say it.

The way it's supposed to be said.

I want to know that I knew you

even before I knew you.

asimilao

(tato laviera)

assimilated? qué assimilated,

brother, yo soy asimilao,

así mi la o sí es verdad

tengo un lado asimilao

you see, they went deep….Ass

oh…….they went deeper….SEE

oh, oh,……they went deeper….ME

but the sound LAO was too black

for LATED, LAO could not be

translated, assimilated,

no, asimilao, melao,

it became a black

spanish word but

we do have asimilados

perfumados and by the

last count even they

were becoming asimilao

how can it be analyzed

as american? asi que se

chavaron

trataron

pero no

pudieron

con el AO

de la palabra

principal, déles gracias a los prietos

que cambiaron asimilado al popular asimilao.