children and dogs rewrite her poetry now

that bastard castro
changed the poem of her life
when they fled his new regime.

havana watched silently
as too many poems changed.
poems were altered or

harshly ended for many
in the name of liberation
as other poems that remained

lost virginity, all earthly posessions,
human dignity and
fleeting fragile freedoms.

decades later
her poems change when
children and dogs interrupt.

in special and not
so special ways they change
and cause her to change new versings.

unlike that early poem of
her gypsy life and journey
she can now be amused.



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