For Don Cellini

you (an Italian) told me

to be more Mexican

i chuckled as my grandmother does

when i try to speak Spanish

you told me my heros

were Paz, Alagon, Aragon, Soto,

all of whom wrote of their Aztec fathers

hate to break it to you, Don,

but my mother said we are Mayan

and my father said we are Spanish

which means one killed the other

so i'm dead, i guess

guess i can't speak Spanish when i'm dead