 For Richie
blancito … puro … purito
i mean …
a snow white
all-american
precioso.
coverman
for the most
for the most
delicate
interpretation
of americana
yet
inside
the cubicles
of his
jones act
invasion
law
to make us
puerto rican soldiers
to die
brown
or black
or white
or indigenous
in any war
that we were used
to transport us
world-wide
chained colonialists
he understood
the doctrine
of that principal
so he always paraded
to challenge imperialism
for he knew
that we were
the last colony
for he knew that
puerto rico last
will be first
for we scrambled
our intentions
not to be
ever defined
by the united states
but he knew …
but he knew
in his philosophical
intellectual
community gatherings
that the united states
lives in ultimate
(me esta saliendo)
in ultimate hell
trying to figure out
why we will never
be a state
thank you, richie
Tato Laviera
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