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Night of Experimental Poetry Brings Bushwick Together

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“And now he thinks that I will uninvite this girl, so that he can bring his other girl…I said, no man, you can’t come!” Flako was passionately explaining the subject matter of his last phone call. “Besides all this creativity I have to deal with this!”

Only 2 hours before Brooklyn Flo-etry at The Bushwick Starr, Flako was still driving around Bushwick and Ridgewood picking up beer, pastelitos, texting people who had never heard of The Bushwick Starr, and calming me down like it was my huge event to worry about (it wasn’t!). “I have to offer food and refreshments to the people from the hood otherwise they won’t come next time,” said Flako about 100 warm and fresh pastelitos ordered from 255 Café on Wilson Ave.

Modesto Jimenez who goes by Flako or by Brooklyn Gypsy , is a tall skinny poet originally from the Dominican Republic. He came to Bushwick with his family when he was…

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