Chapin City Blues

Everything that I Will Ever Know (poem)

(for Eddie Montalvo)

The archives are filled with Anita Byrants, 
white, 
      wealthy, 
            privileged, 
	whose voices celebrate discrimination, 
				colonization,  
filling up boxes and mudding up 
	(whitewashing) 
		history while erasing 
				(bastardizing) 
					our existence, 
		and yet... 

within nooks and crannies 
		within the gaps and interstices, 
hidden in the subtext of manuscript collections 
	and on the pages of student publications 

we continue to exist.  

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