seems like a harmless toy
but
i’ve begun to wonder
if it wasn’t
an early indoctrination
about mexico
and
its people
people
portrayed
by
speedy gonzales
and
pablo
a gun packing
and
no doubt
violent
lazy mouse
while
speedy’s
promiscuous nature
was conveyed
in lines
like
speedy gonzales
is
friend of my sister
quickly
appended by
speedy gonzales
is friend
of
everyone’s
sister
what strange
saturday morning lesson
to
precede sunday school’s
love thy neighbor
oh
and don’t
get me started
about
three black crows
with
few
or
any plants
in
this desert community
one
wouldn’t expect
much
employment
for
yard workers
especially
with
cacti
and
gravel
dominating
the yards
and
rental lots
where
snowbirds
roost
for
the winter
but
jose
and
his young son
always find
enough work
to
subsist on
employed
by
an array
of
elderly minded folks
who
openly say
he
should go back
to
mexico
he’s seen
their upside down flags
those
markers
of
american traitors
and
knows
that they are
credulous supporters
of
the wall
but
not supporters
of
fair wages
they
don’t want
to
pay
the local scale
for
work
so
jose’s hired
all the while
being
denigrated
and
subjected to
mindless
political ramblings
but
once paid
he walks away
looking
back
at the rows
of
mobile homes
inhabited
by
snowbirds
smiles
says
to his son
they live
in
shallow graves
there were rumors which most folks decided to ignore patriotic mumbo jumbo and flurries of flags quieted the crowds but then the bodies began to be found just common folks good law-abiding citizens who had committed no crimes yet their bodies had been tortured as if someone was trying to get information from them the first few were found next to the border wall others were found along what some called the underground railroad some kind of historical term found in banned books as the number of bodies increased whispers soon filled the streets that the people were freedom seekers headed to mexico
god has jumped a train in san pedro crossing overland through mexico hoping to cross the border into a new galaxy away from human ignorance too many wars and religious killings it’s time for a fresh start a reported quote they’ve screwed up the entire planet polluted water annihilated some of my prized creations and now they’re killing each other saying it’s on my behalf i just can’t take it i need to get out of here and away from such pure evil
honey
don’t you
concern yourself
with all that killing down mexico way
i swear
those folks
ain’t civilized
like us
i mean
all those drugs
you
buy
aint got
nothing to do
with those
mass graves
and
headless bodies
and such
cuz
you weren’t there
you were here buying drugs
on our street
strung out
in the safety
of your gated community
you’re
an innocent bystander
i mean
it’s not like
you pulled
the trigger
or
anything
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