No One Is Illegal
“There’s dozens of Americas a gal can hang her hat in,
Some black, some aboriginal, and more than twenty Latin.”
NOTE. One of the premises of this song is that the term “America” properly designates all the Americas—South, Central, and North—which is to say, the entire Western Hemisphere, shown here in an orientation congenial to the global South. Consequently, it is impermissible for any single nation to arrogate the name to itself. In this song, I use the spelling “Amerika” to register a measure of the distaste such arrogance induces among the cognoscenti.
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