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My Spanish isn`t good enough I remember how I`d smile Listening my little ones Understanding every word they´d say, Their jokes, their songs, their plots Vamos a pedirle dulces a mama. Vamos. But that was in Mexico. Now my children go to American High Schools. They speak English. At night they sit around the Kitchen table, laugh with one another. I stand at the stove and feel dumb, alone. I bought a book to learn English. My husband frowned, drank more beer. My oldest said, 'Mama, he doesn´t want you to Be smarter than he is' I´m forty, Embarrased at mispronouncing words, Embarrased at the laughter of my children, The grocery, the mailman. Sometimes I take my English book and lock myself in the bathroom, say the thick words softly, for if I stop trying, I will be deaf when my children need my help.
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