“These dreams These empty dreams from the make-believe bedrooms their parents left them are the after-effects of television programs about the ideal white american family with black maids and latino janitors who are well train to make everyone and their bill collectors laugh at them and the people they represent” RacismImmigrationPuerto RicanNuyoricanEast Harlem Author:Pedro Pietri
“I have a pint of Puerto Rican rum from Ponce that I am drinking from at intervals in between punctuations on my notes for future reference. Wine is unkind to the mind. I have no emotional use for it. It instigates headaches and induces depression. Rum is articulate.” Puerto RicanNuyorican Book:Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry Source: Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry