A Declaration of Poetic Disobedience from the New Border (2005)

To the Masterminds of Paranoid Nationalism I say we say We the Other people We the migrants exiles nomads wetbacks In permanent process of voluntary deportation We the transient orphans of dying nationstates la otra America lautre Europe y anexas We the citizens of the outer limits and crevasses of Western civilization We who have no government no flag or national anthem We fingerprinted imprisoned under surveillance We evicted from your gardens beaches We interracial lovers children of interracial lovers ad infinitum We who defy your fraudulent polls statistics We in constant flux from Patagonia to Alaska from Juarez to Ramalia We millions abound We continue to talk backcontinue continue