Mexico

One more promise soaked in rye whiskey
One more word that bites the dust on some bar room floor
Im the man who travels round doing...
Hey, we dont talk about that
Ill get the favor done for you
No one will ever know
Then Ill run to mexico
Cold as stone my eyes fall on another
Just another name thats runnin through my mind
At your request Ill do whatever you require
You give me the light, I supply the fire
Then Ill burn for mexico
Pretty senorita, she lies to me
Smiles sweetly in the morning when I wake up cold sweating
cause some day Ill be in the sights
One more call when someone finds a target
Only guarded whispers never mentions names
Money on the line will be just fine...
Youll never be involved
And even if a clue shows youll never know

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song performed by Nazareth
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Hey Soos

In a black and white
1960's television episode of
the western 'Rawhide'
was hidden
a small scene

in which a
young Mexican cowboy
from Austin, Texas
named Jesus

and a saddleboy
from Chihuahua, Mexico
named Juan
who was rescued
from the Camancheros Indians
when he was seven years old

and both Juan and Jesus
are standing together

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poem by Oscar Mireles
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Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.

quote by Duncan Hunter
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To Do Or Not To Do

To do or not to do
I have been having
Some strange thoughts
The past couple of days
Thanks to an incident
With a credit card
And my checking account
I am almost tempted
To go for broke
And say the hell with it all
Bankruptcy could not be all that bad
Could it
I was thinking I could move to Mexico
For a few years
And pay a couple hundred toward rent
And a Mexican shrink
And have plenty left over
For senoritas and beer…LOL
Wouldn’t that be the life
I wonder what that might be like

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poem by Edwin Tanguma
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In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

quote by H. Rap Brown
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.

quote by Vicente Fox
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On the Way.

(- what follows is a true story. more a story than a poem. yet, one I have so wanted for so long to tell... -)

On the way
Southbound far into Texas.
It's a long stretch of asphalt,
When the night is late, and so dark
Out on highway 277, moving
From Sonora to Del Rio... and points further south.
Not another soul about,
Just me, my old truck, and the stars.
It's quiet
- and lonely -
Headed down old Mexico way...
Pass a car sitting on the side
- broke down I'm sure -
A coyote with fear and hunger in its eyes
Runs across the road, right in front of me.
Then, a mile or so up, I see him, walking,
Gas can in hand.
I stop, open the door and holler:

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poem by Smoky Hoss
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Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

quote by Stephen Ambrose
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Battle Of New Orleans

In 1814 we took a little trip,
Along with colonel jackson down the mighty mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans,
And we fought the bloody british in the town of new orleans.
We fired our guns and the british kept a comin,
There wasnt bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.
Oh we looked down the river and we seen the british come.
There must have been a hundred of em beatin on a drum.
They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring.
We stood behind our cotton bales and didnt say a thing.
Old hickory said we could take em by surprise,
If we didn¹t fire our muskets till we looked em in the eyes.
We held our fire till we seen their faces well,
Then we opened up our squirrel guns and gave em a little...well....we...
....fired our guns and the british kept a comin,
There wasnt bout as many as there was awhile ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin
On down the mississippi to the gulf of mexico.

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song performed by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

quote by Edward Burnett Tylor
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The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.

quote by Heather Wilson
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Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here.

quote by Tony Garza
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Strewth

You're joking
our Agapanthus
is also called
The Lily Of The Nile
next thing you'll be telling me
bashing a few Indian students
and bunging on a bit
about what'shisname
that Mexican director fellow
youknow the cartoonist's delight
is racist.

poem by Vince Gullaci
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On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

quote by Ric Keller
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We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

quote by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

quote by Robert Towne
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A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

quote by John Shadegg
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We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

quote by Edward Burnett Tylor
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James K. Polk

in 1844, the democrats were split
The three nominees for the presidential candidate
Were martin van buren, a former president and an abolitionist
James buchanan, a moderate
Louis cass, a general and expansionist
From nashville came a dark horse riding up
He was james k. polk, napoleon of the stump
Austere, severe, he held few people dear
His oratory filled his foes with fear
The factions soon agreed
He's just the man we need
To bring about victory
Fulfill our manifest destiny
And annex the land the mexicans command
And when the vote was cast the winner was
Mister james k. polk, napoleon of the stump
In four short years he met his every goal
He seized the whole southwest from mexico
Made sure the tarriffs fell
And made the english sell the oregon territory

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song performed by They Might Be Giants
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Ima be dat one

Growing up as a kid I got beating by bats
Growin up as a kid i had to say 'daddy I miss u'
'mom I want you'
growin up as a kid I was abused got kidnapped i was molested
My mom kidnapped me she did drugs
But she was the one that loved n loved
I knew she would always be dere
Till one day I told her bout dis guy
Some mexican dude he tried to kiss meh
He was da one dat fucked my mom n gave hur money
She aint believe me she believed him
I couldn't do nothing but hate mexicans
I hate dem da guys are rapist da girls r sluts
Nothing really much I could do bout it
But just think n cry
Crying was my why of forgetting things
Crying dat day was da craziest shit
I den learned bout a diary I wrote my emotions dere
I wrote everything I did everyday
Until one day my step popz found my diary

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poem by LADii3 T Hinojosa
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