Stephanie reads her piece at the release party for Words Unburden Me on April 30, 2021.
Immigration/Deportation
In a car there is a person trying to get to work. He is happy,
well. Goodbye to his daughters, he said less. He knows it was
his last goodbye. There he goes waiting for the red light to
turn into a green light. Once it turns to green, he tries to turn.
Once he sees blue and red lights and hears a siren he stops
and waits. Police search his car and he has no license nor insurance. Police take him, his phone stays in the car. His wife is
really worried. At 3:00 p.m., she gets a phone call not knowing
who it was. She answers the phone. It is her husband. Both
in tears, speaking and trying to find ways to get him out. But
at last, off he goes on an adventure to his homeplace where
he was born. That car is left with his wife and she sells it to
not have any memory of what happened to her husband with
that car. …...more
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