Friday, September 7, 2018

Marvin X Mexican

Marvin X Mexican


Marvin X and sons, Abdul (Darrel, RIP) and Hakim (Marvin K) visited Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, 1972

Vamanos vamanos
let's go
fresno central valley field hollar
happy chant day end
cotton field grapes watermelon
vamanos
let's go home
can't see can't see field work
school clothes grape cut
100 trays 300 day
school clothes grape fields
watermelon field too hot
quit noon time
vamanos
to hot noon time
vamanos
let's go grandfather
back to Chinatown contractor bus
pool hall time
Dick's Jew store
Stacy Adam shoes
Pendleton shirts
Alpaca sweaters
cool cats
dress uncle style
daddy style
hustler pimp style
vamanos
cotton field time
third pickin time
choppin' cotton time
no work no clothes
five in morning bus ride
Chinatown ride to fields
grandfather work hard
vamanos
grandfather drunk gambling
Al Gato Negro Club
Granny say go get grandfather
stuck on stupid
ride with mama/uncle stand
wait in car
Uncle Stan go get grandpa
stuck on stupid
money gone gambling drunk
universal pan African
beer hall style
vamanos.
Let's go
--Marvin X
9/7/18

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