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Mestiza
I pledge allegiance to the flag.
Land of the free.
I beam with natural born citizenry.
I pledge allegiance to the flag.
Land of the free.
I beam with natural born citizenry.
A bandaid on the road to stop the spread,
dogs process through their noses: goose turds, a seagull feather,
a flock of cancer cells flaps past.
In kindergarten, you had a boyfriend, who sat on the bus next to you and held your hand
The Johnsons had no pretensions that they from were a class down from even my working-class family, which was not saying much where we came from, except that, behind their backs, everybody called them ‘white trash’.