Vol 4 No 1 2010
Verónica, talking
You can pass those laws, but just like any
other law nobody wants, nobody will obey.
My people will come here and drive cars
to the restaurants where we bus tables
to fields where we pick berries, hospitals
where we wash your grandfather’s sick body
(sí, el cuerpo de un pobre viejo)
so he won’t smell bad when you visit him
one Sunday every month of your legal life.
Judith Arcana