After the Hurricanes.

November 4, 2017

Their insulin can’t be insulated

Because refrigerators (and everything else)

Needs electricity, and US.

But we aren’t helping.

The diabetic (and everyone else)

Are suffering

And will continue to.

It’s been two years since I’ve seen

Your Puerto Rican side, or you.

We were going to go to the island

But we only ever made it to Florida.

Both places are under water now.

The last memory I have

Is of you and the black and brown

Faces of your family.

In the living room,

Hiding from humidity.

I beat your chess-master cousin

8 to 10.

Your crazy cousin

Rolled me my first backwood.

We don’t talk anymore.

So I can’t ask if Nani

(Grandmother to a generation of Ricans,

The one who took your genes from

The Country America has forgotten

To Me.

The same one who was going to

Fly to California for her bones)

Ever made it.

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