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I am hyphenated.

Asturias, Galicias, San Juan;

lay-over in Kansas.

I am dual-passport,

dual-citizenship,

split nationality.

Born red, white and blue

from red and yellow.

50 stars, to one, to none.

I am the birthmark on my left leg,

birth-marked in the west.

I am, pero también soy.

The last Godás,

Martínez-Godás.

I am the weight of two nations,

on a tiny island; 100x35,

5’1 ¾ .

I am uncertain, unstable,

sovereign, under foreign reign.

I am undecided, guided by:

“alzad los brazos [hija] del pueblo español”,

“hija del mar y el sol”

in the “land of the free”.

I am Spanish blood,

born American,

nationality: Puerto Rican.