Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the child of Guatemalan and Colombian immigrants. She co-hosts the podcast Say More and is a member of the band Meli and the Specs. She holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and her writing has been featured in Remezcla, PAPER, The Guardian, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4, Wirecutter, Vulture, Bustle, Glamour, The Huffington Post, Muzzle Magazine, The Poetry Project, Audible, and BBC Mundo. She is from Massachusetts and lives in New York City.

CONTENTS

CAST OF CHARACTERS

PART I: COMO LA FLOR, TANTO AMOR
Dreaming of You
I’m So Lonely I Grow a New Hymen
My Sisters and I Would Watch the Selena Movie
6'5" Looking for Something Casual that Has the Potential to Be Something More ;)
I Watch Selena’s Open-Casket Funeral
Just to Make Things Clear, I Am Not a Haunted Person
What If Selena Taught Me How to Fake an Orgasm
El Chico del Apartamento 512
Karaoke Interlude
Crush Sonnets
I’m Not a Virgin But
The Future Is Lodged Inside of the Female
Resurrecting Selena
I’m Not Sure What to Do with Her, Exactly
El Chisme According to Others: Selena at theHalloween Party

PART II: ME MARCHO HOY
Selena and Me
Selena on the Train
Hi, Uh, Hi, Hello, You’ve Reached Melissa
Selena and You
I Take Selena to a Poetry Reading
In the Middle of My Poem
A Star Is Born Again
Selena Asks for Directions
I Try to Go On with My Life
I Will Name It She
Who’s That Girl?
Mami Calls Me to Tell Me She Had a Dream
If You Could Give It a Name, Who Would She Be?
Papi Calls Me
Dear Ms. Melissa Lozada-Oliva
Abraham Quintanilla is Out for My Blood
Yolanda Saldivar Gets Away With It
In Which I Answer All of the Questions from My Imaginary and Very Important Interview of the Future
El Chisme According to Others: Yolanda at the Gay Bar

PART III: YO SE PERDER
Yolanda Tells Me
Yolanda Tells Me What Happened that Night
March 31, 1995
My Lover Shows Me His Gun Collection
Remember that Yolanda Was a Little Girl Once
What If Reclaimed the Woman
Will We Ever Stop Crying About the Dead Star
Dead Celebrity Prom
You and Me Don’t Talk Anymore
Poem for Fucking a Fish
I Made You a Playlist to Get the Real You Back Even Though Real You Doesn’t Listen to the Lyrics
We Cry About It Together
Yolanda Leaves a Note
El Chisme According to Others: Where Is Selena?

PART IV: COMO ME DUELE
Yolanda Wears Melissa’s Skin into Selena’s Hotel Room
Hellraiser
Killing Time at Karaoke
Her Funeral Plays on a Loop
Selena Dies a Third Time
We Begin to Slow Dance
There Is Only One Way Out
Yolanda Saldivar Orders a Stack of Pancakes
Last Chisme Before We Go

EPILOGUE
Yolanda and Selena Don’t Talk Anymore
It’s Selena’s Birthday in Salina, Kansas
In the Beginning

ALTERNATE ENDING
Selena Doesn’t Die
Selena Still Isn’t Dead
Selena Still Has Some Time Left

RESURRECTING SELENA, FEAT. TIFFANY MALLERY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR