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 nation-states la otra America; l'autre 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 back...continue, continue