(poetry)

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Once a young boy had a dream.
He dreamed he felt a self.
A self that meant to live.
A life that wished to be expressed.

And so he dreamed, this boy of mine,
That his dream did soon transcend.
The lines that shape reality.
For the dream became the self.

In trying to express his dream,
He wrote this story.
And the lines he wrote,
Eternalized his dream.

Authors Website: www.carlostmock.com

Authors Bio:
Travel website: The Pink Agenda. Several Blogs. Weekly newsletter, available upon request. Publications - Fiction: Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey - Floricanto Press 2003. Poetry: The Refined Savage Poetry Review - Refined Savage Editions; Unfinished Works - AIDS Services Foundation – Orange County December 2005; Fingernails Across the Chalkboard Gwendolyn Brooks Center December 2006
Non-Fiction: "Queer History viewed through the eyes of Literature and my favorite books as I live my Latino Odyssey" Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. May, 2006. Unfinished Works Published by AIDS Services Foundation "HIV From the Puerto Rican Perspective"– Orange County December 2005. Watch for his forthcoming book - "Mosaic Virus"