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An Immigrant aspiring for a better life in the United States.



IN PURSUIT OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

It remains airborne
above the ruins and the landmines,
airborne too, the hopefuls find themselves
in the air, trailing after it,

Across open fields,
racing bubbles, in hot pursuit
dreamers, in slow motion
fingers closing around it,

Grasping it, slipping away,
losing the winged feel,
the ground closing in, with all
its sharpened vicissitudes,

Crashing atop one of
the countless, strewn piles of
splattered fliers,
the myth remains, floating above.

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