Ricardo Lira Acuña
Ricardo Lira Acuña (?-present), a Latinx poet who also goes by the name “Ricky Luv,” was born in Nogales, Arizona. He earned his BA in English and French Literature from Stanford University and an MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University. Along with his two collections of poetry under the influence and Greetings from Heaven and Hell, he has published the graphic novel The Realm and has written and produced the short film L.A. Noir. Source
Intimate Set
So this is an intimate set
Between you and me
So please
Leave your bags at the door
Don't carry what you don't need
Come in, have a seat
Because I want to confess to you
Everything
Right here
Right now
You see it’s a new year
A new sun
El sexto sol
A time of transformation
A new me
A new you
And every moment
A snowflake
So you wanna know a secret?
You’re free to think for yourself here
You’re free to truly be yourself here
You are loved here
Because out there
In the desierto
And all along that Berlin Wall with Mexico
They can tax us
They can discriminate against us
They can deny us an education, ban our literature and our leaders,
Erase our history and our unalienable rights
They can declare war against us
They can invade us
Take us hostage and prisoner
Poison our water our food our land our air
They can even shoot and bomb our babies
Rape us
Sell us
Buy us
Eat us alive
But they cannot and will not have you
And they cannot and will not have me
And they cannot and will not have the love here
Between you and me.
Published:
None
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2020
Themes:
Intersectionality & Culture
Love & Relationships
Strength & Resilience
Literary Devices:
Alliteration
the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words appearing in succession
Anaphora
a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences
Apostrophe
an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified)
Assonance
The repetition of similar vowel sounds that takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line; usually refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that do not end the same.
Asyndeton
the absence of a conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so…) between phrases and within a sentence
Epistrophe
the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
Imperative
an instruction or a command
Litote
Ironic understatement in which a positive idea is expressed using a negative of its opposite.
Repetition
a recurrence of the same word or phrase two or more times
Rhetorical Question
a question asked for effect, not necessarily to be answered