Brown girl/White girl
all rolled into one
Mexican mama
and a white daddy
living in the South
¿Cómo se llama ya’ll?
all sewn together
at the dinner table
hot flour tortillas
beans and rice
tacos and tamales
pozole and chicken mole
enchiladas
fried chicken mashed potatoes
purple hull peas boiled cabbage
cornbread red velvet cake
eating our differences
at Sunday dinners
sopping up the causal racism
of aunties
with granny’s fluffy biscuits
while at home it was
mama’s pain
wrapped in tortillas
buttery tears slipping out
and running down our arms
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