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Irony is like the arrow
of love piercing the heart;
likewise is celebrating
Cinco de Mayo:
If the French had won,
emancipation would have
been a delayed inevitable.
Ironically, America celebrates
behind walls of bigotry—
veiling the debilitations of you
who are hued just like me—
pitting us one against the other
in being free.
Check it out: they stole us from ours
and claimed your land as theirs;
made the Alamo a praised emblem—
shadowed by walls of triumph.
Celebrate if you must, but in God
you must put your trust.
The bank of justice remains on guard
when it comes to paying people like us.
Walls keep out as well as keep in;
woe be unto the USA’s
bordering walls of pontificating sins:
The Moors built much of the greatness
of Spain, but their glory is not given the same.
Mlowe5, May 5, 2019
