(or translation’s disregard)
i think:they will never see me if I don’t speak Spanishbut why demonize dad(the third whitest of
his clan of 13)
for not teaching
why should he hadit’s not his people’s language anyway.not anymore than English is mine 23andMe can’t make me pronounce an old world.
(I do speak some Irish, [Gaeilge in Standard Irish], sometimes known as Irish Gaelic
) and when I use my mother’s maiden name there, whew… negation ain’t new
Goya ain’t even Puerto Rican
I think I’d prefer the language of El Taíno(if I pronounced that correctly)
Las primeras estrellas brillantes that, some say, spoke different languages on the same island (After the men were killed and women’s children named–maybe that is eating your young?,
Los
conquistadores
en caballos marrones)
anyhoo I’m Black on Ohlone land,
we don’t speak the history of,
I know why I’m hard to translate What I’m supposed to look like To make me easier to read Imitate. Reproduce. Anyway
tongues
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… me gustaría to pass on la historia as a Latinx?*
sinhavingto restatein the language we can understand me,
inside of,