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Tijuana Gringo

28 Noviembre 2000.



San Francisco 2000 Dream

Eucalyptus merge with cedar fragrance
pungent bite carresses your coastal nose

and you know your place where the park begins
in the north with ten thousand other trees.

"Do not ask what [park] is it. Let us go
and make our visit." Golden Gate, stupid.

"The City" dreams of Japan and China, of
war and Han grandparents' gold mountain trunk

whose branches bear ten million silk boxes,
slippers, and persecution memories.

You, without a drop of orient blood
can only say "my Indian came from there

long long long ago." Perhaps it be true.

Tom's wife Yumiko said you looked Niha.
Danny Kwan and Ho Mei both swore Chinese.

"No," you smiled, "Indian, American.
Every red-blooded boy wants to be one."

In the park remember it matters little
like trees who can reach the distant stars

yet here stand only spark plugs connecting
to real masters: Sequoia & Redwood.

Go there if you dare to the place named where.





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