What It Was Like
If you want to know what
it was like, I’ll tell you
what my tío told me:
There was a truck driver,
Antonio, who could handle a
rig as easily in reverse as
anybody else straight ahead:
Too bad he’s a Mexican was
what my tío said the
Anglos had to say
about that.
And thus the moral:
Where do you begin if
you begin with if
you’re too good
it’s too bad?
by Leroy Quintana
from El Coro
Uniniversity of Massachusetts Press, 1997