I am a brown man:

Brown as the soil of the earth.

Brown like the lands of the Americas.

I have been an immigrant:

Ronald Reagan told me to clean his horses.

I roofed houses across the U.S.

I’ve been a worker:

Under my hand vegetables harvest.

I made your garden flourish.

I have been a singer:

All the way from Panama and Cuba to Los Angeles.

I carried my love songs.

I made salsa and mariachi time.

I’ve been a victim:

The coyotes abandoned me in the Arizona desert.

They raped me crossing the border.

I’m a brown man:

Brown as the soil of the earth,

Brown as the lands of the Americas.

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