For "S." (poem) (Special Issue: Puerto Rican Women Writers)

If a green leaf is no more alive to you than your toe is without you then go on about your life flattening soda pop cans for a pastime leaning against the concrete walls of shopping plazas or gray corporate buildings waiting on some cash to rain down leaning against the soft side of a woman trying hard to be gentle & alive You can watch t.v. tan in its technicolor splendor Though maybe a toe's better off without you sure it could feed something sometime or …