The other women of the shanties don't believe her,
but Juana ( after years in the factory) swears she
saw it: the thin and twisted cacti came to life and
were white men from the north, leering men in suits
who waved hard hands and caused factories
to blossom like sickly purple desert flowers-
the women of her village were sucked in and worked.
Juana cries when she recounts this and somewhere
a baby with born with no brain says nothing.
"Juana of the Maquiladora" © 2004 by Gary Wilkens - Posted Friday, January 30, 2004
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