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Poem: L.A. is my city

Never arriving in a city missing in locational drift. Plates shifting under building facades and whipped décor, Seas rising and falling at the edge of amusements And surf. The migrations migrating elsewhere, monarchs lost on their way south, children coming north In droves on their way to anywhere else. The city of lost souls blowing…
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Jovanny Valdez

December 8, 2017

Never arriving in a city missing in locational drift.
Plates shifting under building facades and whipped décor,
Seas rising and falling at the edge of amusements
And surf.

The migrations migrating elsewhere,
monarchs lost on their way south, children coming north
In droves on their way to anywhere else.

The city of lost souls blowing in the Santa Ana winds
And people who are not us no matter who we are.
Where is she now, he asks, what ever happened to the girl
Named for a saint, the one with the ankle tattoo
The one who dropped out, lost out, & only just arrived.

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

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Cody Going has been in Mission Viejo high school’s football program, a team ranked number four in California by MaxPreps, for five long years. From his time in eighth grade to now he’s been able to see the athletes at Mission Viejo High grow from teammates to a...