Wife Immigration Poems

Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker,
he was harvesting sweet potatoes on
Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, 
North Carolina on September 5, 2023.
The temperature was...

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My wife came here in 1993
  To America, ‘Land of the Free’
From a place of dictatorial tyranny
  of greased palms and ‘yours for...

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His poems were about racism.
About the white man who wouldn't hire him
	because he was a “dirty Mexican.”
My mind shivered in disgust.

In the end he said,...

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I come from the land of coffee,
plastic breasts and nonsense,
drugs and narco past, 
very proudly they'll exalt.

Woman so pretty as blow-up doll, 
got so many...

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My wife is unhappy
  What did I do
Nothing, my darling
  It's not about you

But dear, you're so sad
  It eats away at...

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They came to me for Jewish names
   A Russian-Jewish couple, not to blame
Where they were from, Hebrew was banned
   As it...

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Blood spilling in the east running all the way to the west
Forming rivers of doubt in the north and South
An army of men converge along...

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A Wedding Day

Cleaning the church is a privilege. 
I go every Saturday, humbly to serve. 
It is not a boast, it is small gratitude paid,...

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The Dreamocracy

Spread the message 
far and wide
Spread the message 
in the carpet bombing.
Now comes freedom.
 Surrender and forget about pride
 Messengers of liberty 
are thrombbing
and...

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A discombobulated couple that landed in the new world with hopes that left the bitter taste of rejection in their mouths
No family , no friends,...

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The French sail
To the Riviera
From the metis 
To Canada

They became Acadians
And settled in Port Royale
Their lives were famine and conquest
But that didn’t hurt morale
The British...

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What Kind of People Are We

In a Shakespearean sense of tragedy and doubt the well-used
“To Be or Not To Be” from Hamlet is not the...

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I like immigrants, immigration. Legal immigration,
Jane passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless world.
That's a new idea to her.
Gathering the neighborhood like family.
The men...

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Hashtags polling

virtual war, viral

naija stand by

wait!

Fall they will,

like pack of cards

in the face of cash

Sandcastle disco!

Sing-song voice, rings hello

trained roll of the tongue

cultivated baritone

a pitch...

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It's been a good run
To the back side of sixty,
The short side of time.

First Hollywood kiss
Behind a pink crepe myrtle.
Thanks, Patsy Werner.

High school was okay.
Didn't...

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