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| Miguel and Isabel Olivas February 10, 2019 |
A poem by Daniel A. Olivas
In honor of my parents’ 65th wedding anniversary
February 6, 2019
Those are a lot of years, no?
For two beautiful brown folks
To be together.
Her family came from Jalisco to L.A.
Almost a hundred years ago escaping
The violence of the Revolution.
His came from Chihuahua to this same city
Around the same time also fleeing the
Revolution’s blood and broken promises.
Somehow these two brown folks found
Each other, fell in love, and married after
He came back from fighting in Korea.
With the familia around them, after Mass,
And after Mexican food at Yolanda’s,
We cut cake and saluted them.
These two beautiful brown folks, suffered
And loved and struggled and laughed and
Cried—but it was worth it, that we know.
Those are a lot of years, no?
For two beautiful brown folks
To be together.