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Association of Mexican American American Educators (AMAE) Journal © 2011 • Volume 5, Issue 1

    Confusion is my Dress

Gabriela Rodríguez
California State University, Fresno

Que me internen, mama, yo ya no puedo y yo ya no quiero más seguir, que me internen ma

Escribe mija.

ESCRIBE!!!

Para que no se te rompa el Corazón.

Pedacitos, son pedacitos. Pero todavía existen. Si un día se derrotan o desuelven, como pápel en

un vaso de agua, un día se colarán y volverán. I am ….. NOT… yes you are. I am not I am I

a  m  n  o  t 

I think in English. I even count in English. I lose track when I try in Spanish. I think that even more interestingly 

I think in English and that must mean something, what would the thought process be like to think in Spanish?

Sincerely yours,

Preocupada, desesperada y intolerable, for I am a scholar, or at least I was trained, and I learned and thus want.

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