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Atenuación

By Jelisa Gonzalez | May 6, 2024

 

Photo Credit: Pixabay


I have to learn to accept 

That I will never one hundred percent

Understand my mother


Being bilingüe

Means speaking to my mother

In a broken Spanish


More of the,

“Hi mom ¿como estas?”

And answering 

“I’m good, ¿Cómo están todo para aya?” 


She will ask me si bebí mi ocho copas de agua,

And I would turn the camera to hide my smirk

From the screen


I did not 

Drink my ocho copas de agua 


To say that I have accepted 

My broken spanish

Is an understatement

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