Best Foreigners Poems

My best friend and I
Keep ourselves secret
Within the soft whisper
Of our headscarves-
Yet a beginner 
In this disappearing act,
I still need her help;
In danger of falling over
Ourselves and each other
In the backseat of the car,
We giggle-
Over misplaced pins
And her mother's admonitions
From the front seat-
As my disguise...

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Amidst their poor land
Where their roots born
Ancestors' cherished land
Their identities shifting
Became foreign hearts....

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Stay away from them, he told me. They are foreigners.
I too am a foreigner. 
This is America, after all.
Anyone who is not a Native American is a foreigner.
We Europeans ran over here and land-grabbed land from people
Who thought land was to be shared, not owned.
I...

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Is it true or lies 
for some foreigners
to discover
big rivers
in your villages? 

Imagine when you read
 that a big river in your village 
was discovered 
by a foreigner. 
To mean all the villagers 
who were living there 
Did not know about it, 
While fishing in it,...

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