For José

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For José Nao Bustamante (bio) There’s a place for us to be, for us to goWhere we can hold hands and spin and swingOur handssoft, so soft Where our enormous cocks dangle outjust below our silk hemlinesoft, so soft Our faces are painted with butterfly flock and we laugh in the sunshine at our silly animal selvesWe waltz with our ungraceful feet We’ll do that dance that I endlessly made fun of you forWe recline on the mosssoft, so soft There, we are drinking from the cool springAll the birds singWelcome home, welcome home, we thought you’d never come Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 427] Nao Bustamante Nao Bustamante is associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking, and writing. She has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance International Film Festival, El Museo del Barrio, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2013 she was awarded the CMAS-Benson Latin American Collection Research Fellowship and a Makers Muse Award from the Kindle Foundation. Copyright © 2014 The American Studies Association