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Marvin Contreras
from Issue 45
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Marvin Contreras
at home a small brown boy sits in front of the tv his mom tells him to sit farther away but he doesn’t later he plays with his plastic heroes SteveRogersClarkKentBruceWaynePeterParker he knows he is never the hero
at school he believes the assembly when they show pictures of dirty corn in bathtubs Do not buy from the corn men they say
at a fiesta he hits a piñata harder than the others tearing open Superman’s papier-mâché chest he is the first to grab the little candies wrapped in plastic
at school he is given awards for good english he likes being one of the smart ones when Ale says share instead of chair the boy laughs and doesn’t know why
