FRIDAY POEM

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Carmen Bomba: Poet
Claribel Alegria

Luisa always felt refreshed when she remembered Carmen Bomba,
the porter and human beast of burden in the Santa Ana marketplace.

Each afternoon when he finished work, he’d
get a little drunk to perk his courage, and pause
before each open window in the neighborhood
to say the verses he’d composed that day.

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Cl