and if the music be born / of the slave ship’s rot / I am a child of that music

Preach mestizaje and latinidad, but I know: / Si la abolición llegó, el negro no la gozó.

These are columbuses who use the same tactics as against / the Taínos, kill us with disease, this time as capitalism, debt, the lack, / to steal land for their leisure. How the devil delights in playing on our bones.