Rosario

[Since Rosario had been shot at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love. But she realized what had happened when she moved her lips away and saw the gun]

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"she blew on my wounds
with a breath so cold
I almost believed it was true,
she was all ice inside"

In Spanish,
death rhymes with luck,
but that's only because
they are the same thing

she says..

Rosario was the definition
of mystery, like her city
she seemed to be surrounded
by mountains every one
wanted to climb over

at times,
I thought you could
cut her open,and find
steel instead of bones
yet on others
her eyes gave a way a vulnerability
so tender, you could not help
but love her.

smoke escaped the surfaces
her heels touched,
corpses were left
where her kisses
have been.

she was stronger
than any substance she ever used-
beneath that sex appeal,
she was bulletproof

we thought..

but,
life has its way
of contradicting
assumptions.

[If eyes it has, don't let it see me
if hands it has, don't let it grab me
if feet it has,don't let it reach me
don't allow them to surprise my back
don't allow my death to be violent
don't allow my blood to be shed,
you that know all,know my sins
but you also know my faith
don't leave me unprotected]

she was pierced everywhere,
her nine lives where up

still,
even death looked
good on her.

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this poem is based on the book
"Rosario Tijeras" by Jorge Franco
Tijeras means scissors in spanish
her official last name is never mentioned in the book
she got the nickname because it was her weapon
she was raped by a man when she was only 8 years old and she chopped his balls off with her mothers scissors,
they always had them around the house cause her mother made clothes and stuff,
bottom line is that the Rosario worked as a lover for the the biggest drug dealers, the bosses, the real thing.
she was a hit woman too and her killing strategy was to seduce the man and kill him while kissing him
(she was killed the same way)
Rosario had a hard life she was in what you can say
a triangular relationship..she was always with Emilio and Antonio, Antonio was Emilio's bestfriend, and Emilio was Rosario's boyfriend, they say.. but everyone knows no one ever owned her.
Antonio on the other hand fell deep in love with her,
not her beauty..like other man..But Rosario in herself the person she was inside, he wanted to get to know her
no one knew Rosario, she always said something else when asked about her age, never had papers,
never said her last name and in her purse she only had a mirror, red lipstick and her gun.
they developed a platonic love, but Antonio for the sake of his friendship never said anything,he suffered in silence,they had long and deep conversations yet he never felt like he reached the bottom of her.
Emilio had Rosario whenever he wanted her, her flesh I mean, like all the others.
but Antonio was the only man who she ever gave her heart to,and not her body..
the story begins with him carrying to the hospital after he finds her shot somewhere, after 3 years of not seeing her.

anyways, ya'll should read it. I swear.
they have it in English!