“Drive back and forth/A rush-hour tide/I strive to regain that feeling I felt/When I thought that this was worth it./The drive is gray./I cry.” Gwendolyn Zepeda, a Houston native who has struggled to escape the inner-city barrio she grew up in, wonders why she’s crying about her long commute to the suburbs. “I’m driving towards something I sure/Can’t complain about, something my/Parents could never have had.”
- Cover page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Raised Catholic
- A locus a Hundred Feet Up
- Paranoid
- The Mexican in Me
- The White in Me
- Tempt
- Prayer to a Man
- Elders
- These people
- I had a job I hated
- A man needs a woman
- I ruined my work shirt with Jack in the Box Taco sauce
- Strongly Felt sensations of this Morning
- The Elevator's Tight Squeeze
- Like a Baby Doll
- The Homeowner
- In the Parking Garage
- A bad Feeling
- Eula in the Bathroom Stall
- 9-to-5, After Noon
- His son is his everything
- Falling in Love with Fellow Prisoners
- Words for Nerds
- Unrequired
- Zombie Maker
- Blondes, More fun
- The flower for December is Narcissus
- Fishing
- Freckles
- This may be your favorite song, but
- (The Suess Carried Over)
- Our Love is like a Bomb Shelter, baby
- He dialed me by accident and I eavesdropped
- Ain't I a woman
- Hush Now
- Girlfriend
- Embarrassing to Admit
- Situational Anemia
- Nicked Spine
- Child
- Self-Acceptance
- Malady, Adjusted
- Proposal
- Omega Wolf
- Strongly felt sensations
- That Music made me cry
- At the Animal Shelter, was a volunteer
- After hours of Girls gone wild
- Curtainless Bohemian girl
- Sunflower
- Why there are so many songs about DJs
- Winter
- This girl I know
- Springtime Is an Indomitable Monster
- Diner Trick
- Live band
- Traveling
- Drive Through
- A link
- You are missed, Mr. Rogers
- Vietnamese Noodle House
- Also by Gwendolyn Zepeda
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