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and the pick-up trucks of rednecks blast Garth Brooks,
into active voice:
and rednecks blast Garth Brooks from their pick-up trucks
You can remove the word "all" from: The wetbacks all toil in the fields, I'd consider putting all of the Spanish lines in italics, which I forgot to mention earlier:
"Miha, esto es el sueño Americano" "My love, this is the American dream" as she shrugged shrivelled green mangoes into her cart. *s6 I think it's the girl, but I'm honestly not 100% sure if the thugs or the girl are crying, "Soy solo un gringa sucia." The reason: I know enough Spanish to get to here, but I don't know what "sucia" is. I think you need a line in English as well as you did in preceding stanzas.
I think you can tweak the line:
of her virgin's blood on the concrete; to something like:
of virgin blood on concrete
Jasmine, this is a wonderful, wonderful poem.
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