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The Change
“Watta you gonna do?”
“I don’t know.” It was getting dark.
“You could run away.”
“Where would I go?”
“California?”
“That far?”
“Or Mexico.”
“I don’t speak Spanish.”
“Then just give it back.”
“I can’t.”
“Why not?”
“I already spent it on candy.”
His friend thought about that. “Can I have some?”
“I ate it all.”
After watching the traffic at the intersection for a while, the boy’s friend got up. “I can’t go to California,” he said apologetically.
“Why not?”
“I’m not allowed to cross the street.”
“Yeah,” the little boy still sitting on the curb admitted, “me neither.”
From Guest Contributor Jean Blasiar
Cinco De Mayo
Don Quixote died a martyr.
General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín selected me to cross the great Ocean, and plead with the inimitable one to travel to Mexico and war against our French oppressors.
The first sign of trouble came when we boarded our ship. It was a small merchant vessel. He referred to it as the Armada.
The day of the battle he refused a musket. He charged into the fray on his dusty nag, with nothing more than a tin sword. He was trampled to death by a herd of sheep he mistook for dragons.
But Mexico was free.
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