A multi-cultural, multiverse exists, and I do not wonder if there are gigantic green gargoyles on congress or if tyrannical tarantulas terrorize the senate floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I instead wonder if there\u2019s one where my mother got to stay in Mexico, and if she got to raise my brother, I wonder if he turned to breast feeding instead of beer guzzling? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this universe, I imagine a version of her with her nursing degree, a nationally recognized nurse who trains with dazzling doctors and is paid the money she deserves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope she is somewhere wearing one of those long white dresses, eating tortas and tortillas and tacos, I hope she drinks cafecitos and chews on chancla and chisme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What does she look like when the world treats her with kindness? Does she stay her beautiful hundred pound, double-zero, four foot eleven self?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I hope her hair is still long, that it didn\u2019t fall out from the dollar tree shampoo\/ stress combination, I hope she braids her beautiful black hair in violet vanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Does she have nightmares about cleaning the toilets we clean together here? Would she choose a life where we struggle to put food on the table?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wonder if there is a version of her that came here legally, one that thinks a coyote is just an animal and wouldn\u2019t know where the human-sized hole in a desert fence is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this universe, I hope she had a good Catholic daughter with her black hair and skin that matches hers, I hope that she got the name my father couldn\u2019t pronounce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I pray that in another universe my mother is loving her daughter the way she could never love me in this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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