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“Prologue: Salvadoran Woman’s Lament” Lyrics by Demetria Martinez

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Nothing I do will take the war
out of my man.
A war without zones, soldiers raped
his sister at home - then disappeared him.
He returned, his rib cracked,
chest scorched with cigarettes.
The room spins at night, he says.
Last night I held him,
to keep him from falling,
he called me a whore.
When at last my man gets out
to become a new man in America,
when he finds a woman
to take the war out of him,
she will make love to a man
and a monster,
she will rise from the bed,
grenades ticking in her.
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Demetria Martinez

Demetria Martinez

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