By Kirk Wood Bromley
ISBN-10: 1893194019
ISBN-13: 9781893194014
Romeo and Juliet, re-imagined. even though Icarus and Aria, like its forerunner, is written in verse, it's firmly positioned within the current. Icarus Alzaro is a rookie soccer famous person simply signed to a excessive profile agreement with the Aztechs of Phoenix, Arizona. Jimmy Jones, the landlord of the Aztechs, has a sullen teenage daughter named Aria. the 2 meet at a celebration to rejoice Icarus's becoming a member of the group, spend the evening jointly and sneak away to the mountains jointly. through the following morning, their disappearance is a media sensation. the 2 younger enthusiasts are ultimately, necessarily pulled aside by means of forces and faces that encompass them, a solid starting from Dina, Aria's smart-mouthed ally, to Primalo, head of El Imaginero, against the law ring associated with drug-dealing and a spate of murders and Icarus's brother. Icarus and Aria unflinchingly examines the nation of the United States this day, the place issues of race, gender, status and media publicity overlap and interrelate in violent and tragic methods.
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Parenting‟s a paradox rodeo. If you say no, the child‟s sure to do it, Yet you say yes, the child says no to it. If you kick up your heels, you can‟t say heel, But stay flatfoot, you lose your hip-appeal. Denial is what offshoots most deny, But parents get shot at if they defy. Say, wait a while? You lost it at her age. Say, marry first? Ya, right, Mr. Third Marriage. No man good enough? All men good enough. She was conceived, she will conceive. Be tough, And bend. Life‟s a fatal affair with fun.
Icarus is not at camp. But Mr. Nite was supposed to pick him up. Excuse me? Icarus is not at camp! He‟s with Shareen Stone. No, I am. Well, Maxi, lose your boy, take his girl? I‟ll watch my wife round you, Secret Agent Man. Where is Icarus? 64 NiteMaxJones- Jimmy, we had a night. The boy is somewhere. Ya, like at your house. Cynthia! Get my daughter! Cindy exits. Jimmy enters. JonesJimmyJones- Icarus ain‟t at camp. But he‟s supposed to be. Thank you kindly, Insecurity Chief, for that informative, entertaining zippo!
But tonight, the flower suckt, the beeing done, I‟ll shake their hate to honey, sweet and spun. Is this the truth? What use in drillin her? She‟s a docile drone in the cult of love. She‟d sooner hail to bopping UFO‟s, Wear black to show how deeply she‟s a void, Scribble her final passage endlessly, Then down the poison of a life-thru-death. Now, I love love, but I love one thing better: To love it all; that‟s what I was born for. Dina. Duna! I‟m Duna of the Dust, Santa Ana of the Sands, hot Miss August, The Williwaw woman, the cyclone seed, La Malinche of the west-coast miracle greed, My particles flingin, I bust every barrier, My reflex thinkin, I push ever powderer, I static, I shift, I slump and abrupt, I pure, I cut, I‟m totally corrupt, From his Panama toes, to his Nicaragua knees, From his Guatemala butt, to his Aguacalientes, From his Baja arms to the tip of Yucatan, I tap, dip, top that Centr‟ American man.