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  • In s5, slight tightening by putting this line:

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.

by Tracey on Oct. 14 2008