Alicia/Bodeguita

Wherein I had a crush on a girl, went crazy for a day, pondered my soci-political role in society and failed to save a teenager from her fate.  It was a film that never got made-so now it exists on this page.  The tape loops and jerks and show Alicia twirling round and around the signpost.

Across the street from the corner store
where Popeye got shot, right below my window,
a lazy day unfolds. 
What is she waiting for?
The car that drives by full of homies:
she-tough girl-yells What up MUTHAFUCKAS!  Laughs
and turns around the signpost again.
She won't talk to me except the time
she wanted to borrow a dictionary.
And she told me
her aunt jumped out of my window when the house caught on fire and
that's why they don't live there anymore.
Sometimes she goes away.
Her father tells me she got raped, had a dead baby.
I don't remember what she wrote on our door but I knew it was her.
I touched the chalk lightly.  How many traces of her in this world?