i need the poem “Bully” by Martin Espada?

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• Bully – Martin Espada

  In the school auditorium,

  the Theodore Roosevelt statue

  is nostalgic

  for the Spanish-American war

  each fist lonely for a saber,

  or the reins of anguish-eyed horses,

  or a podium to clatter with speeches

  glorying in the malaria of conquest.

  But now the Roosevelt school

  is pronounced Hernandez.

  Puerto Rico has invaded Roosevelt

  with its army of Spanish-singing children

  in the hallways,

  brown children devouring

  the stockpiles of the cafeteria,

  children painting Taino ancestors

  that leap ɴᴀκᴇᴅ across murals.

  Roosevelt is surrounded

  by all the faces

  he ever shoved in eugenic spite

  and cursed as mongrels, skin of one race,

  hair and cheekbones of another.

  Once Marines tramped

  from the newsreel of his imagination;

  now children plot to spray graffiti

  in parrot-brilliant colors

  across the Victorian mustache

  and monocle.

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