got probation and my brother was transferred to Combinado Sur Prison. It hurt and hurts the way I was removed from sports, music and school, as well as from my partner, friends and family. Nine years have passed and the wound is still open. An impulse of denunciation appears in every song, whatever the subject I address, and my disagreement with injustice is always there, waiting to really commit, over and over again, a contempt or a public disorder. I write again and again about it, because I remember it, because I am still living it.
* This term is used in Cuba to call people with white skin and crimped hair.
A Very Short Poetry Book
Plus-Pain Inspired by Harmony: The Plus-Pain( 1935) by Gustavo E. Urrutia( 1881-1958)
My skin is the incarnation surface of the punished person, Prison, insane asylum, hospital, enslaved regime, Policy that dominates and discriminates against the homeless, Excluded, persecuted, suffered and marginalized.
Control mechanism, territorial surveillance, Brutal arrogance, spiritual conquest, Forced to abandon practices and customs, Thusly the imperial mask operated on the summit.
If the king can put to death, racism can kill, A murder that the white judge will later justify, Although it is an obligation of the state and its welfare, that the people become a social hygiene.
The shepherd neither bully nor paint a color of bar, The shepherd is modernized without oppressing his sheep, He guarantees, benefits, reviews, even if it is complex, His flock of militias and always moves away from the damage.
But in my Cuban land there are prejudices of colors, A plus-pain of Gustavo Urrutia and blacks with their pains, There is white what does not look black and there are values That went to where the rays of sun do not reach.
Land of my grandfathers, slaves of white masters, Land of the mayoral with the whip in his hands, Land that during the colony prayed to its African gods, So that today Afro-Cubans do not suffer.
The IQ, the weight of the brain, The angle of the nose, the discontent of a people, The size of the sex organ, skin color, being treated as a dog, Altitude of the cheekbones, you can see that it is a black.
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