Post Traumatic Hood Disorder
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Post Traumatic Hood Disorder - David Tomas Martinez
THEY CALL HIM SCARFACE BECAUSE HE’S SAD
I knew I had gotten older
when I noticed women no longer
wore bras, which
didn’t happen until my eyes
began slowly lightening with wrinkles,
though not in my eyes
was I old,
nor could I see myself as 40
and still in college. Yet,
there I was, and so was
Aaliyah when she sang.
Only in youth
do we sing certain notes, only when
age ain’t nothing but a number. I remember
when age’s days
felt numbered. That’s when
I got older,
but, my family joked,
my girlfriends never did.
Now, they just want me to get a job,
then a wife.
In the movie Scarface, Tony Montana said
you get the money,
the power, then women. Admittedly, I’m usually
out of order. I once
went back to Cali
and came home to no
power. I called my landlord and told her
a circuit had broken;
when we discovered it hadn’t, she wasn’t
impressed. My first book’s
initial page
is impressed. But I didn’t
make any money
off that. Scratch is slang for
money, and I lament the fact
that I’ve never sniffed a cent
of scratch. Vaginas are considered
the original wound, and God cursed
the descendants of Eve
with painful childbirth
and menstruation
for being out of pocket.
In medieval paintings,
Jesus’s wounds are often depicted
as little vaginas.
I have gotten
a lot of wound.
The etymology of vagina comes
from the idea
of a sword being sheathed
in Latin, but also,
in English, from the word
vanilla.
Not from going without
does healing come
but from going within.
I once spent a whole
month in my apartment
drinking liquor
and smelling the lingering
smoke of my fingers.
If I hadn’t already lost my job,
I would have lost my job.
I cried a lot that month,
then stopped drinking,
which made it hard to date.
She told me
she was going to date
and said I should too.
That’s how I found out
about the great
American bra
depression
in the summer of 2015.
AND ONE
Look at the homie,
even when in a gang
he came home to crack Nietzsche, Beyond
Good and Evil, Will
to Power. Believing everybody dies at twenty-four,
not seeing a future in pump-faking, even then.
You ever try to read philosophy high?
Gone to the hole and hoped for the foul,
wished only to finish.
After rolling joints in two Zig-Zags,
after an hour of starching pants,
he transferred trollies and buses.
He’s going places.
Look at homie, trying to fix himself.