Clockwise Cat Issue 40

yeehaw into the setting sun, trying to reach heaven. back to Arizona and feed it carrots
and sugar. Give Arizona back The turquoise around my neck like Phoolan-Devi. like John
Wayne holds the rootinest-tootinest cowboy in the wild, wild West. holds a pistol. she
embraces my pen to Damn the villain versus hero dialectic, who go Everyone is divine
because everyone eats corn. hoping that my anxieties are taken West, passing over with
writers, artists and performers to descendants. four corners be cowboys of the Southwest,
an ear of corn in which women could hold an ear of corn. The sun sets over everyone
eating corn. the Pacific holds a pistol. like John Wayne, The West is wild, vast wilderness,
within me because new, fresh, is poetry. to Hollywood gender roles, relationships with
animals and food subverts corn crops in the sun.
prairie loneliness, armed robbery, Damn the villain I ride gently. The sun sets over corn. I
associate myself with descendants of Pueblo in which blacks could be cowboys. a past in
which Everyone is divine because everyone brought turquoise to artists and performers
who die and Give Arizona a past in which Mexicans Give the Western lands back to
Mexico. protects me from evil gently and feed it back to Mexico. I associate myself with
writers, artists and performers who go with God.
Author bio: John Sanchez is a Latinx sociologist, writer, musician, social justice activist
and friend from Los Angeles, California. Sanchez's all-ages rock 'n' roll band, A Horse A
Spoon A Bucket, can be found through social media, on YouTube and on Bandcamp. A
UCLA graduate, Sanchez’s written work has been published in UCLA's literary magazine,
Westwind, as well as on the UCLA Radio blog and the UCLA Newsroom webpage. Other
publishings include: College of the Canyon's Cul-de-sac literary magazine, Cardio Arts
zine, California Salmon arts zine and Johnny Ruckus’ Western Revue. Sanchez’s poetry
utilizes experimental techniques to challenge traditional forms and word choices, while
promoting racial inclusivity, sustainability, environmentalism, subversion, anarchocommunism
and the working minorities of the West.