Digital Program
Original Music inspired by… 8 musicians – 2 local authors
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle
presents
InkAloud! 2024
Eight musicians! Two authors! One magical night!
December 7, 2024
at Hugo House
Hosted by Wes Weddell
Curated by Pepe Montero
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Featuring Readings & Musical Performances from
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Claudia Castro Luna
Author, Killing Marías: A Poem for Multiple Voices
Nancy K. Dillon^
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Tara Chugh^
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Shin Yu Pai
Author, Adamantine
Drea Marilyn
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Tomo Nakayama*
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2024-2025 “Banned Books” Mainstage Season at Hugo House, Town Hall Seattle, & online
InkAloud! 2024
Original Music Inspired by:
Killing Marías: A Poem for Multiple Voices, Claudia Castro Luna
Adamantine, Shin Yu Pai
Curated by Pepe Montero
PERFORMER-PROVIDED LYRICS
Rights to all song lyrics ©/℗ the individual artists, reprinted here—exactly as submitted—with permission
Nancy K. Dillon
Lamentos de Juárez
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1)La Niña:
Mama Maria – please don’t go to work today!
I worry you won’t come home to me.
I’m afraid when I’m all alone
That I’ll never see your face again
Never know your touch – never feel your skin.
Mama Maria – please don’t go – please don’t go away.
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2)Mama Maria:
My precious child, it’ll be okay.
Mama must go to work today
So we can eat when I’m home again.
Keep the fires burning but do not stray.
I promise you we will never part
But now I leave you with this Golden Heart
To keep you safe when I’m away.
Sagrado Corazón….tu mi Corazón.
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Chorus:
Golden Heart shines with Sacred Fire
Lights the night and burns so bright
May no malvado* enter here
May no mujer* nor niña* fear
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3)La Niña:
Mama Maria – please don’t go to work today!
I worry you won’t come home to me.
I’m afraid when I’m all alone
That I’ll never see your face again
Never know your touch – never feel your skin
Mama Maria – please don’t go – please don’t go away.
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Chorus:
Golden Heart shines with Sacred Fire
It lights the night and burns so bright
May no malvado* enter here
May no mujer* nor niña* fear
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Ending Refrain:
Ni una mas…Ni una mas…Ni una mas…Not One More…
Ni una mas…Ni una mas…Ni una mas…Not One More…
Ni una mas…Ni una mas…Ni una mas
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*malvado = evil; bad man
*mujer = woman
*niña = child; girl
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Tara Chugh
‘Dark Flower’
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Did you hear
The echos of her cries
Could you see
The pain, in her eyes
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Left alone to dry
Buried into the earth
The earth received a seed
A dark flower to birth
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The flower grew until
Another petal emerged
The beauty of her soul
Into fields of the earth
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Hail Mary full of Grace
The Lord is with thee
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Can you speak
The words of her fight
Turn the page
A story, a life
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Left alone to dry
Buried into the earth
The earth received a seed
A dark flower to birth
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The flower grew until
Another petal emerged
The beauty of her soul
Into fields of the earth
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Hail Mary full of Grace
The Lord is with thee
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Did you hear
The echos of her cries
nance!
“kill or be killed”
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take the time
give it space
i don’t know any other way
read my mind
read my face
i don’t know what i should say
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why do i surround myself with people who don’t care about me?
why do i bother in this world that wants to see my ending?
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everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
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everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
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see you try
ing your best
to control what’s in front of you
for my life
with my chest
scream for help down the avenue
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you had me cornered all alone with no one there to save me
you had me praying to a god but there is no escaping
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everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
—
everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
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am i
losing my mind?
is this a sign?
do i say goodbye?
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everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
—
everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
—
everybody
knows
that’s how it goes
there’s only
kill or be killed
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