Clorox

In the long lineage of ribs, 

boneless ribs, containing cotton 

but no cartilage, 

to which connects no sternum, 

no clavicle, no ligament of heart

or lung, then, this pair of Chucks, folded over

and accompanied by tallboy calsitenes, 

chones, a wifebeater loaned or left behind, 

don’t matter when observing one’s tio shine 

and his homeboy shine

and that fine-ass vato in the blue Cutty at the car wash shine

and your jefa’s old school dude shine 

and your homegirl’s brother Guicho shine 

so firme, so fine--

one’s homeboy crease down so fine. Then, 

this pair of tongues that whisper, 

“This way.  Asinita, bro.”