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Letter To Pedro, U.S. Citizen, Also Called Pete
Letter To Pedro, U.S. Citizen, Also Called Pete
Letter To Pedro, U.S. Citizen, Also Called Pete
Citizen, Also Called Pete every time we have good reason to get drunk
by Rene Estella Amper and be carried home in a wheelbarrow
we always remember you. Oh, we miss
Pete, old friend; both Pete and Pedro.
there isn't really much change
in our hometown since you left. Remember us to your American wife,
you lucky bastard. Islaw, your cock-eyed
This morning I couldn't find anymore uncle, now calls himself Stanley
the grave of Simeona, the cat we buried after he began wearing the clothes you sent
at the foot of Miguel's mango tree, him last Christmas.
when we were in grade four,
after she was hit by a truck while crossing P.S. Tasyo, the old goat,
the street. The bulldozer has messed it up Sends your lizard his warmest congratulations.
while making the feeder road into the mountains
to reach the hearts of the farmers.
The farmers come down every Sunday
to sell their agony and their sweat for
a few pesos, lose in the cockpit or get
drunk on the way home.