Soy Siciliana Americana,
Blood born, trained, and raised in America.
Pero tengo espíritu de Mexicana Chingona,
pero ahí me llaman la gringuita.
This poetic escape releases my duende,
inside MLA format citations.
This country drives fast to fly far away,
quotations, immigrations, deportations.
Marmalade speeches sap of bitter war,
My words dance on paper like Emily D.
A funeral tangos in the mind’s core;
Will American land ever be of the free?
Scottish, Egyptian, Chipriota, también,
We are all born from somewhere in the end