Contents

I

(Citizen) (Illegal)

My Parents Fold Like Luggage

Mexican Heaven

River Oaks Mall

My Therapist Says Make Friends with Your Monsters

Boy & The Belt

The Voice in My Head Speaks English Now

Rumors

II

Mexican Heaven

Ode to Cheese Fries

I Wake in a Field of Wolves with the Moon

Note: Rose that Grows from Concrete

Ode to Cal City Basement Parties

Not-Love Is a Season

Mexican Heaven

On My Mom’s 50th Birthday

Hecky Naw

Ode to Scottie Pippen

III

Mexican Heaven

The Day My Little Brother Gets Accepted into Grad School

I Tried to Be a Good Mexican Son

I Walk into Every Room & Yell Where the Mexicans At

Mexican American Obituary

White Folks Is Crazy

Mexican Heaven

I Ask Jesus How I Got So White

Poem in Which I Become Wolverine

When the Bill Collector Calls & I Do Not Have the Heart to Answer

Mexican American Disambiguation

IV

Mexican Heaven

You Get Fat When You’re in Love

Interview

My Family Never Finished Migrating We Just Stopped

If Anything Is Missing, Then It’s Nothing Big Enough to Remember

Sleep Apnea

Mexican Heaven

Note: Vaporub

Summer Love

V

Mexican Heaven

Poem to Take the Belt Out of My Dad’s Hands

My Mom Texts Me for the Millionth Time

I Loved the World So I Married It

Love Poem Feat. Kanye West

Getting Ready to Say I Love You to My Dad, It Rains

River Oaks Mall (Reprise)

Gentefication

Guapo

Acknowledgments