while you have left
a part of you in me here
you also have kept
a part of me in you there.
that subtle single touch
from this suburban hand
womb'd and nursed in your
inmost sanctum now grown
as big as life itself, sown
to bloom from my homebone!
Amiga Rica pronounced America
spells a newfound home amidst
the absence of old cotton fields
where you can freely recite aloud
yourself unfurled before the world.
here where you were native born
forlorn and torn in bondaged pangs
among the many muted tongues
no more here you come back for long
it is America where you belong.
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"Amiga Rica" is
fatefully dedicated
to the untold millions who migrated
to America leaving the economic pains
of outrageous fortune in one's native land
and celebrating the material gains
of precious opportunity in this new land
where freedom-abundance reigns.
nombresin
