“Mexican” Is Not a Noun

to forty-six UC Santa Cruz students and seven faculty arrested in Watsonville for showing solidarity with two thousand striking cannery workers who were mostly Mexican women, October 27, 1985 “Mexican” is not a noun or an adjective “Mexican” is a life long low-paying job a check mark on a welfare police form more than a word a nail in the soul but it hurts it points it dreams it offends it cries it moves it strikes it burns just like a verb