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Bidal Aguero, Lubbock, Texas
(Newspaper Publisher, Playwrite, Video maker, Political Activist-and sometime, borrachin!)
Upon his passing away on Tuesday,
Nov. 3, 2009, at six o’clock in the afternoon,
one day after “El Dia de Los Muertos,”
because even La Pelona couldn’t tell Bidal Aguero what to do…when to do it
Copyright by Nephtali De Leon
I first met him as Billy
Quien es Billy?
Who’s this gordito that shows up
Everywhere?
I didn’t know Billy
He’d talk to me about his mom
And how his dad worked
For the city as a trash collector
The way he talked I could imagine them both
Full of courage and of pride to be the humble
People that they were
only they didn’t know
They were proud-but Billy saw that
and he talked to me about them-
pride gleaming in his jolly eyes
This goes back some 35 to 40 years…
The happy spring of youth still sparked in our gait
For strait is the gate and narrow is the way
It was all before Nixon and the Watergate tapes
when I first met Billy…
By the time I met him, and I didn’t know it
Billy ya habia tenido un conjunto,--“Los Premiers,”
And I didn’t know it back then
That he had music in his soul
underneath
His real Chicano politics…
their first big hit was “Nada contingo…”
then he went to Texas Tech
joined the first Chicano Raza group,
Los Tertulianos,
Vice president in 70, President in 71!
He
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