The poems, essays and short stories in this book are written in Tex-Mex (Spanglish) and includes a glossary for Spanish and Spanish slang used in the context of telling a story. It was written in this matter because this is how my mind thinks and also to document a regional slang spoken during a certain time and place in United States history. I was born in 1955 in South Texas, sixty miles from the Mexican border to a Mexican-American mother and a...