A very cool performance of the classic poem found HERE.
The Clinic
Una serenata plays before she gets there
an accordion accompanies the words Yo no quiero nada
businessmen and young girls wait at bus stops
dayworkers pray and write letters in their heads at W. Martin, Salinas, and Frio St.
The Appraisal District and jail are death-rattles
in the steam of a July rain
and in a small cluttered office nearby
old fruit stinks up the corners
as an economist sniffs Good Will thongs
his cleaning woman wears a loose brassiere and shakes her head
At the doorway, a gringo with an eye patch says, spare a dime
still walking, she lies, I don’t have any cash on me
Mexican-American
In July 1846
Many Mexicans drowned themselves in the Rio Grande
They had been terrorized by gringo war volunteers
who desecrated their churches
and burned their homes
This was about land of course
and in a letter to Julia Dent
General Grant wrote of the war volunteers:
How much they seem to enjoy acts of violence
I would not pretend to guess the number of murders
that have been committed
The number would startle you
