<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418237" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pancho, the barrio idiot.<br>Rumor is that una bruja from Bernalillo<br>le embrujo. Unshaven, chattering<br>and nodding to airy friends<br>that follow him,<br>he roams the barrio all day.<br>I see him at least twice a day—<br>walking on the ditch behind my house,<br>hours later walking across the bridge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Harmless, la gente leave him alone<br>in his own fantasies,<br>to share his bread with invisible companions,<br>to speak back to voices<br>that brim over from his childhood memories.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen him<br>on all fours in Raul’s field<br>with the sheep. Or last Christmas<br>in the tree meowing like a cat.<br>You always fill my heart Pancho<br>with delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jimmy+Santiago+Baca">Jimmy Santiago Baca</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418237" data-title="Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII de Jimmy Santiago Baca" data-description="Pancho, the barrio idiot. Rumor is that una bruja from Bernalillo le embrujo. Unshaven, chattering and nodding to airy friends that follow him, he roams the barrio all day. I see him at least twice a day— walking on the ditch behind my house, ho..."></div> </div> </div>

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