Some days it is not hard to understand why some...
drink too often. Why they can't wait to get home...

On the trip to Poland,
I met a boy from Afghanistan...

I no longer want you to ask me,
to expand my horizons...

Sometimes you're 21, and you can't remember
the last time your mother smacked anything against...

I know that this is what a friend once spoke...
This the realization that things simply aren't...

Not the typical latina who is feisty and...
The truth of the matter was that my mother tried...

I wonder if when you
were a little girl, your mother would...

My languages are nothing
but prove that I was smart enough...

He's a smart guy though,
so smart, he leaves my bed...

I want to be happy, joyful
peaceful. want to live a life...

I keep thinking about you,
I keep thinking about your country...

I do not think of myself as
a poet anymore though...