I am Joaquin/Yo Soy Joaquin
Says, Means, Matters
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Yo soy Joaquin./I am Cuauhtemoc, proud and
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noble,/ Leader of men, king of an empire civilized
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I have been the bloody revolution,/ The victor,/ The
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vanquished./ I have killed/ And been killed./ I am
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In a country that has wiped out/ All my history,/
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Stifled all my pride,/ In a country that has placed a/
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I look at myself/ And see part of me/ Who rejects
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my father and mother/ And dissolved into the
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beyond the dreams of the gachupin Cortes,/ who
also is the blood image of myself.
the despots Diaz/ And Huerta/And the apostle of
democracy,/ Francisco Madero.
Different weight of indignity upon my age-/ old
burdened back./ Inferiority is the new load…
melting pot/ To disappear in shame.