"Get horny with the wrong images...argue about salt...fear roses..." (Herrera 61)
-This quote comes from a poem titled Things Religion Makes Me Do. The way the author lists all of these things that are strange and out of place makes you believe maybe its his religion that is strange and out of place. Getting horny with the wrong images is simply his way of saying that it makes him believe things he shouldn't, care about things that don't matter. Arguing about salt is his way of saying his religion creates superstitions like the fear of roses, silly things that he believes are real and that make him argue for them and for his way of life.
"A woman asked me what writers influenced me, who did I read? I said, my mother. Lucha Quintana. Have you heard of that writer? The woman's neck twisted. No, she wanted to know "what writers"! She wanted to ask the usual worn phrase. Ginsberg, Anrtaud, Nervo, Lorca, Neruda, Popa, Hikmet, Rodnati, Walker. These are the shadows - I should have told her." (Herrera 69)
-The above quote shows you an interaction between Herrera and the people around him. He doesn't understand his "fame" in the writing world. He doesn't understand why, if people think he is special, which you should be to be famous, why they don't accept his differences, or even care about them. When he is asking the woman if she's ever heard of his mother it is a question he already knows the answer to but has meaning to him. To ask if she knows of her writing is to make her writing something that SHOULD be known and therefore something acceptable by the society as what he can base his writing on and what is allowed to be his favorite.
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