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    Broke Baroque
    Broke Baroque
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    Broke Baroque

    By Tony Medina

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    BROKE BAROQUE is the third in a series of Broke Books by award-winning poet, Tony Medina. Centered on Medina’s iconic everyman, Broke is a character that bears witness to his plight of homelessness in a humorous yet profound way, on the streets of Any City, USA. Through tall tales, anecdotes, episodes, rants and jokes, Broke eloquently and irreverently conveys his marginalization in a grossly unaccommodating society. Funny and perversely sharp, whimsical and impassioned, BROKE BAROQUE is compulsively readable and will connect with any book and poetry lover alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher2Leaf Press
    Release dateJul 1, 2013
    ISBN9780988476394
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      Broke Baroque - Tony Medina

      by Tony Medina

      With an Introduction by

      Ishmael Reed

      P.O. Box 4378

      Grand Central Station

      New York, New York 10163-4378

      editor@2leafpress.org

      www.2leafpress.org

      2LEAF PRESS

      is an imprint of the

      Intercultural Alliance of Artists &

      Scholars, Inc. (IAAS),

      a NY-based nonprofit 501(c)(3)

      organization that promotes

      multicultural literature and literacy.

      www.theiaas.org

      BROKE BAROQUE, Copyright © 2013 Tony Medina (www.tonymedinabooks.com/). All rights reserved under international and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in or encourage electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of this author's rights is appreciated. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted or stored in or introduced in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of both the copyright owner and 2LEAF PRESS, an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), the publisher of this book, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles.

      Library of Congress Control Number:  2013933165

      Print Edition, ISBN-13: 978-0-9884-763-5-6

      ePub Edition, 978-0-9884763-9-4

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      Published in the United States of America

      First Edition | First Printing

      Disclaimer:

      Note to the Reader

      Viewing this eBook at a higher than optimal text size will cause the reading experience to be altered considerably. Since eBooks are formatted as reflowable text and have to work on many different screens and devices, it is impossible to guarantee that the poems will display as the poet intended. As such, some of the lines will display as multiple lines of text. When this occurs, the turn of the line will be marked with a slight indent, prompting the reader that this is a continuation of a previous line. In order to read the poetry as it was written, we suggest that you read this book at the default font size on your device. Please note, that spacing of some of the poems were either truncated or eliminated to accommodate reflowable text format. Please refer to the print edition of this book for a more accurate rendering of the poetry.

      Books by Tony Medina

      POETRY

      Broke Baroque

      An Onion of Wars

      Broke on Ice

      My Old Man Was Always on the Lam

      Committed to Breathing

      Sermons from the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging

      No Noose Is Good Noose

      Emerge & See

      FOR YOUNG READERS

      The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems

      I and I, Bob Marley

      Follow-up Letters to Santa from Kids who Never Got a Response

      Love to Langston

      Christmas Makes Me Think

      DeShawn Days

      EDITOR

      Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art, with Samiya A. Bashir and Quraysh Ali Lansana

      Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, with Louis Reyes Rivera

      In Defense of Mumia, with S. E. Anderson

      Credits

      Cover Design: Miriam Ahmed

      Cover art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Boy and Dog in a Johnnypump, 1982, acrylic, oil paintstick, and spray paint on canvas, 94 1/2 x 165 1/2; Copyright © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris / ARS, New York, 2013

      Book design and layout: Gabrielle David (www.gabrielle-david.com)

      For Lynette Velasco,

      Jan Carew,

      Jayne Cortez,

      Marlene Lillian Hawthrone-Thomas,

      Yvonne E. Aiken, and

      My uncle Denny Cholo Ortiz Bahamundi —

      Ancestral

      Somebody is always trying to take disadvantage of me.

      —Jesse B. Semple

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Disclaimer: Note to the Reader

      Books by Tony Medina

      Credits

      Dedication

      Quote

      INTRODUCTION

      Poet Laureate of the Broke

      BROKE NOTE

      Broke Baroque

      Broke Bail Out

      Broke Villanelle

      Broke Cat Gaucho Tongue

      Broke Confession

      Broke on the Job

      Broke Bop Shuffle

      Broke in Jail

      Broke Wet Dreams

      Broke Pick-of-the-Day

      Broke Dick Dog

      Broke Back Payments

      Broke Believer

      Broke Broken

      Broke without Head & Shoulders

      Broke with Indigestion

      Broke with Headache

      Broke Good Will

      Broke on Glass

      Broke Bath

      Broke Burnt-Out Buildings

      Broke Citizen's Arrest

      Broke Motto

      Broke with Bulb

      Broke Found Poem

      Broke This Just In

      Broke Litigation

      Broke at the ASPCA

      Broke Awakening

      Broke Reflection

      Broke Politics

      Broke Logic

      Broke in Bellevue

      Broke Regrets

      Broke Success

      Broke Choice

      Broke Date

      Broke Pushed

      Broke BFFs

      Broke Imagining

      Broke Times

      Broke Fear

      Broke Routine

      Broke Impression

      Broke Realization

      Broke Head on Horseback

      Broke Back Alley Scraps

      Broke Baptism

      Broke Ambiance

      Broke Competition

      Broke Travel Brochure

      Broke Tale Lights

      Broke Relation

      Broke Bumming Cigarettes

      Broke Higher Education

      Broke Luck

      Broke Married without Children

      Broke Justice

      Broke Direction

      Broke Integrity and Litigation in Fast Per Suit

      Broke Boheme

      Broke Diagnosis

      Broke Dish

      Broke Value

      Broke Faith

      Broke Toof

      Broke Dental Insurance

      Broke in Purgatory

      Broke Daydream

      Broke Costume

      Broke Man March

      Broke Compassion

      Broke Shoes

      Broke Thanksgiving

      Broke Clarity

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