{"id":1861,"date":"2025-06-30T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.com\/?post_type=theatre&#038;p=1861"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:55:05","slug":"goodbye-america-im-going-south","status":"publish","type":"theatre","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/goodbye-america-im-going-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye America; I\u2019m going South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>2 days before the election of president trump<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodbye America, me voy. Adios Estados Undidos en el Temor. Adios soldados, Terminators, War on Terror<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios guerreros de gimnasio, patriotas hist\u00e9ricos, demonios de la Banca, dem\u00f3cratas cobardes. Ahi los wacho desde abajo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me voy al sur, me pinto, Se\u00f1or Trump, a, a, a\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios Gringolandia sitiada, my second home &amp; third country, mi casa en llamas&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios racistas aterrados, asesinos en serie de televisi\u00f3n, comerciantes del p\u00e1nico, <em>acteurs de la m\u00e9ta-r\u00e9alit\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios celebridades de la estupidez X-trema; banqueros y vaqueros con tupe\u00e9 de peluche tipo naranja el\u00e9ctrica\u2026 Me voy al sur, me pinto, se\u00f1or Trump-a-dios-a dios y a todos ustedes&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios a tu privilegio imaginario, a tu maltrato cotidiano; goodbye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>indiferencia, desconecte, racismo non-plus-ultra, violencia PLUS o mois, adieu, capice\u2026 Me pinto al rev\u00e9s en el espejo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios tecnologias in\u00fatiles\u2026 Texting, texting, HTP\u2014309-BH1, 500 canales Plus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adios I-phone, I-pod, I-tunes, I-chingao, I-am leaving for good. Me voy al sur del sur y no regreso; ni siquiera a mi propio funeral<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodbye in German \u201cTschuss,\u201d (sshhhuz), zic hail, me pinto, se\u00f1or Trump, zic hail!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goodbye vendedores de cat\u00e1strofes, constructores de muros imaginarios, policias de la injusticia protestante. Adios a todos, chan, chan. Me voy al sur y valga la redundancia, a un pa\u00eds de mierda que a\u00fan no existe\u2026 y nunca existir\u00e1&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Se llama bla-bla-bla &amp; bla-bla-bla &amp; bla-bla-bla &amp; A can\u2019t astap aspakang laik a pancha maxacan A Kant halp at all caraja!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&amp; I\u2019m not a nationalist. You know me. So, why do I speak Spanish and glitch in my dreams?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>I woke up this morning and realized this was just a nightmare, \na weird self-deportation nightmare. \nIt\u2019s just my fears acting out. \nHow lucky I am!!! \nHow lucky we think we are, que no?<\/em>\n\n<em>I\u2019m getting my sleep apnea night mask on Craigslist.<\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>El Hamlet Fronterizo<\/strong>:\n<em><strong>Weird Love poem in Spanglish<\/strong><\/em>\n(Playas de Tijuana, 1988)\n\n\nBorder State Park; \nFacing the formidable Pacific ocean\nw\/one foot on each country\nI talk to my other self\n<em>a dos voces interiores:<\/em>\n\u201cme ama\/ no me ama\nme caso\/ no me caso\nme canso\/ no me canso\nchicano\/ mexicano\nque soy o me imagino\nregreso o contin\u00fao\nme mato\/ no me mato\nen Mexico\/ in Califas\nto write or to perform\nen Ingl\u00e9s or in Spanish\u2026\nI hate you; no, I forgive you, \nno, I crave for you, mi loca\nansiosamente tuyo, \nde nadie m\u00e1s\nfrontera mediante\u2026\nte espero, mi chuca, \nte sigo esperando\u2026\nyou are it, tu llanto, \ntu make-up, tus cicatrices,\n<em>(pause)<\/em>\nno, you are definitely not it\nyou don\u2019t even exist yet\"\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goodbye America, me voy. Adios Estados Undidos en el Temor. Adios soldados, Terminators, War on Terror","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/theatres"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/theatre"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}