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Cerebral Incarceration Sestina by Danny Murillo Lil ghetto boy racially constructed as a landscape of fear1 Mass media takes away his imagination of real Stuck in a neo-liberal mirror of self-glorification Racist agenda moves in like mental gentrification And distorts his perception Imposing on him a white middle class imagination2

Lil ghetto boy with a curious and inquisitive imagination Racially constructed as the other to fear Standardized testing narrows his perception Making believe equality is real While communities of color are going through gentrification Passive education leads him to self-glorification

Lack of critical education indoctrinates him for self-glorification Lil ghetto boy done lost his imagination Parents losing the economic battle against banks and gentrification Racist pigs use stop and frisk as a way to create fear Mass media makes it real Harlem kid films NYPD reinforcing their racist perception3 Hurricane Katrina reminded us of Americas real perception President Bush taking in heavenly self-glorification4 New Orleans diaspora was painful and real Negative images distorts your imagination Mass media construct the Crescent city as a location of fear Rebuilding only for the purpose of gentrification

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Ghettos go through gentrification Neo-liberal education creates the perception Lack of capital accumulation is something to fear Slanging bricks and stacking chips to claim self-glorification Lil ghetto boy sold his imagination Carrying steal he thinks is keeping it real

Arrested does he squeal or keep it real Mass media just another tool of oppression like gentrification Patriotism plays with his imagination Lil ghetto boy lives up to the gun-totting perception The only way to reach the ultimate goal of self-glorification By perpetuating the same fear

Reinforcing neoliberal imagination, colorblind racism becomes his perception, Unable to distinguish fake from real, his hood is target for gentrification. While lil ghetto boy is overseas killing for his gangsta nation!

Mountz, Alison. Mapping Remote Detention Beyond Walls and Cages, Vol. 14.University of Georgia Press. Athens, Georgia. 2013. Print. Pg. 94.
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Davis, M. "City of quartz Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. Verso Books. 1998. Pg. 242.

Tuttle, Ross and Erin Schneider. "Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt' [VIDEO]." The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-video (accessed April 24, 2014).
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Andersen Brower, Kate and Catherine Dodge. "Bush Says New Orleans Flyover After Katrina a `Huge Mistake'." Bloomberg.com. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-05/bush-calls-new-orleans-flyover-in-wake-ofhurricane-katrina-huge-mistake-.html (accessed April 24, 2014).