Kahlil Almustafa

  A 14 year-old girl
  dies in the desert
  while walking alone
  to the Estados Unidos

  No Liberty Statue to greet her
  offering to change her name
  from Yoselina to Rebecca
 
  like some bad action thriller
  sick as she walks
  she tells her little brother
  to walk ahead without her
  he needs to be with mama

  and Yoselina dies alone in
  the desert an American

  (Day 66 of the collection "From Auction Block to Oval Office—100 poems
  in 100 days of Obama's Presidency.")


  Poem posted in this space, March 8, 2010

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