BIO
Marissa Candy Raigoza grew up in Selma, California, which she brags is the raisin capital of the entire world. She is currently living in Fresno and teaches in a small, rural high school and is an adjunct instructor at the local community college. She’s a graduate of Fresno State where she received a bachelor’s in English and San Diego State University, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in The San Joaquin Review, Flies Cockroaches and Poets, The Undercurrent, and Chachalaca Review. She has a blog titled Butterfly Bailona, which is the secret identity she sometimes assumes when she writes.
Blog: https://labutterflybailona.wordpress.com
He gets paid
to work a 4 hour gig
12-4 Saturday
and 12-4 Sunday.
The owner of the winery
Has specifically requested that he play
Only one Latino song per hour
Because it might attract the wrong, rowdy crowd.
Jaime doesn’t listen.
He’s an artist,
intuitively feeling out the crowd,
carefully picking the next song.
Jaime will Dale like Pitbull if he feels like it
Jaime will Bidi and Bom Bom if his hips say hip hip hooray
Jaime will play Suavecito, both the oldie and the newest Latin hip-hop tune
mouth the words in Spanish
and slap his legs like a drum
because it’s his heart
not the winery, or its owner
that is the boss of him.
Dale!