Name: Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society AKA Breakin' Pods
Duration: P00H01M57S
Description: Written for the 2019 Bosque Chile Festival "Powder vs. Pods" Poem-Off at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society AKA Breakin' Pods

by Hakim Be

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Written for the 2019 Bosque Chile Festival "Powder vs. Pods" Poem-Off at the National Hispanic Cultural Center

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Breaking Pods

In its current composition
It is already in the trunk
Of some Chevy Impala
Doin' a buck 20 in the HOV lane
Towards becoming a class 1 narcotic…

This powder wreaks
Of contraband

Fought over and for
Like territories
Like New Mexico
And Colorado

Like bloods
And crickets
Or something else way more clever

That stands for green.

Because when you cook this
It cracks, instead of peels.

An addiction
Welcome as a punch in the throat
An offering, no "a test"
an indecent proposition on the altar
Of every meal..

Before we ask forgiveness for this guilty pleasure
And call it grace

Before this knuckle sandwich
That the mere dusting of chile
Transforms into a delicacy.

Before "red or green?"
as a prelude to any blessing.

This is our sufferance.

Once upon a thrice dry rubbed rib
Caged and rotated upon a spit
Amid the chest cavity of San Padre Pio

Patron Saint of all chile peppers
Rich and pour
Powder or Pod…

The same flesh that the Sun shed
That the spirit fled
Evolving from the cocoon of itself

Before Emerging into a mythic, mystic form.

Every time a pod dies
Powder is the resurrection.

No longer a rugged individualist
But a collective
That really brings a hand together.

Not flaky unlike…
Insta-awesome
Just add water and stir

The cure for homesickness
In a pinch,

A shapeshifting condiment
Made miracle in every meal.

With a certain superiority,
complex enough to string up and lynch
Every last pod by the ristra.

The kind of substance
That blows into burning eyes
Before and after a bar brawl

And like
What are you going to do with a pod

Throw it at me?

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released August 17, 2019
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