Truth Speak
Turn up the voltage
and burn out the light bulbs.
Step off the pedestal
and conform to nothing.
Swim against the current
and jump the shark or play
with it for a while and
write with the blood you shed.
Out of disorder
and rebellion a flash
of happiness can spring
forth, like electric dreams.
The butterflies in your
stomach will fly out of
your mouth and your heart
will be free to speak truth.
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal lives in West Covina, California, works in Los Angeles County, and is the author of Raw Materials (Pygmy Forest Press). His poetry, prose, and art has appeared in Black Petals, Blue Collar Review, Mad Swirl, Cowboy, River Dog Press, and Yellow Mama Webzine. His broadsides, chapbooks and poetry books have appeared in Alternating Current Press, Deadbeat Press, Four Feathers Press, Kendra Steiner Editions, New American Imagist, New Polish Beat, Poet's Democracy, Rogue Wolf Press, and Ten Pages Press. Luis recommends St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
