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MEXICO MOON

by David Knape
The Mexico moon
  shines on its brown dirt
like a round tortilla
  baked into the peasants
who work in the sun

the Mexican moon
  spotlights the pyramids
shining on the serpents
  carved by the children of slaves

Mexican moon
  sweeping over the Rio
as brown as the river
  or the backs of the swimmers
who cross with only a bundle

the violence spilling over
  into border towns
which spill over
  into the browner desert
holding secret mass graves
  blood on the rocks

escape from the coyotes
  the cartels
the pervasive drug culture
  bodies hanging from bridges
bodies by the side of the brown road

the moon reminds its people of
  the sadness of Mexico
the moon changes
  Mexico never does
© d.knape October 21, 2019

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