Saenz, Jacob 2023
Blue Hour Reading Series with Jacob Saenz and Jason Bayani
Haymarket House
As a boy I bicycled the block
w/a brown mop top falling
into a tail bleached blond,
gold-like under golden light,
like colors of Noble Knights
’banging on corners, unconcerned
w/the colors I bore—a shorty
too small to war with, too brown
to be down for the block.
– Jacob Saenz, “Evolution of My Block”
Watch Jacob Saenz’s 2023 reading with Jason Bayani at the Chicago Poetry Center:
Jacob Saenz begins at 19:13 minutes.
He was just some coked-out,
crazed King w/crooked teeth
& a teardrop forever falling,
fading from his left eye, peddling
crack to passengers or crackheads
passing as passengers on a train
chugging from Chicago to Cicero,
from the Loop through K-Town:
Kedzie, Kostner, Kildare.
– Jacob Saenz, “Blue Line Incident”
Listen to this interview with Jacob Saenz:
