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I'm Jus Askin

By Oscar Bermeo,

Favoured : 152

Published in : , Poetry

After Huu Thinh's "Asking"

I ask sidewalk: How does sidewalk live with sidewalk?
— We don't judge who walks here.

I ask fire hydrant: How does fire hydrant live with fire hydrant?
— We keep each other cool.

I ask brick: How does brick live with brick?
— We make it day to day
holding each other up.

I ask city: How does city live with city?

Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is a BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award winning poet, who now makes his home in Oakland, where he is the poetry editor for Tea Party magazine and lives with his wife, poeta Barbara Jane Reyes. Oscar's current work in progress is a poetry manuscript entitled Anywhere Avenue. When looking up information about the Bronx in which he grew up, all he could find were stories about a place so dangerous, that no one could have possibly lived there; his writing is a response to and rejection of this stereotype.

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