Pat Mora "La Migra"
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Let's play La MigraI'll be the Border Patrol.You be the Mexican maid.I get the badge and sunglasses.You can hide and run,but you can't get awaybecause I have a jeep.I can take you whereverI want, but don't askquestions becauseI don't speak Spanish.I can touch you whereverI want but don't complaintoo much because I've gotboots and kick—if I have to,and I have handcuffs.Oh, and a gun.Get ready, get set, run.
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Let's play La MigraYou be the Border Patrol.I'll be the Mexican woman.Your jeep has a flat,and you have been spottedby the sun.All you have is heavy: hatglasses, badge, shoes, gun.I know this desert,where to rest,where to drink.Oh, I am not alone.You hear us singingand laughing with the wind,Agua dulce brota aquíaquí, aquí,* but since youcan't speak Spanish.you do not understandGet ready.
Let's play La MigraI'll be the Border Patrol.You be the Mexican maid.I get the badge and sunglasses.You can hide and run,but you can't get awaybecause I have a jeep.I can take you whereverI want, but don't askquestions becauseI don't speak Spanish.I can touch you whereverI want but don't complaintoo much because I've gotboots and kick—if I have to,and I have handcuffs.Oh, and a gun.Get ready, get set, run.
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Let's play La MigraYou be the Border Patrol.I'll be the Mexican woman.Your jeep has a flat,and you have been spottedby the sun.All you have is heavy: hatglasses, badge, shoes, gun.I know this desert,where to rest,where to drink.Oh, I am not alone.You hear us singingand laughing with the wind,Agua dulce brota aquíaquí, aquí,* but since youcan't speak Spanish.you do not understandGet ready.
*Sweet water springs here, here, here.
1993
Source: Hunter, J. Paul. and Alison Booth, eds. The Norton Introduction to Poetry, Eighth Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
posted by NACO at 22:30
1 Comments:
Tengo que analizar este poema para mi clase de ingles, y wow me quede muy soprendido por esta poeta cual me resulta muy interesante... AWESOME POEM!!!
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