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ónde Está Mi Madre

A child weeps & her cries reverberate throughout the dingy warehouses,
makeshift barracks & swarming
extraction camps, it

ricochets across the desolate plains of west Texas & southern California &
southern Arizona & the mesas
of New Mexico.

A child weeps & his tears threaten to drown the tongue-tied Christians, Jews
& Muslims, they dampen dinner tables
in Portland, Maine &

Poughkeepsie, New York & St. Louis, Missouri & across the Rockies &
across the sea to Honolulu. Children weep &
parents weep &

a once-proud people cringes in the wake of what it has allowed & what it
has wrought & what it is to be
dishonored.

Between bouts of fear & trembling these kids are heard to ask ¿ Dónde está mi madre? – ¿Dónde está mi padre? –
¿ Dónde estoy?

‘Where Am I?’ rings off-key like a cracked bell – like a symbolic “liberty”
bell, cracked but still resonant, reminiscent
of what has been lost but might still be.

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from Of What I've Seen, released August 26, 2023
Roger Aplon - spoken word
Marcos Fernandes - phonography

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Marcos Fernandes 横浜市, Japan

A native of Yokohama, Japan, Marcos Fernandes spent over three decades in California as performer, producer and curator. He has performed in the US, Canada, Mexico, Portugal, Hong Kong and Japan as a solo singer-songwriter, improviser, phonographer and percussionist/sound artist with various ensembles, dancers, poets and visual artists. ... more

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