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Saturday, July 31, 2010

NOTES ON BEING AN IMMIGRANT

by Kim Doyle


First, you don't exist.
(Geographically, where exactly is Mali?)
Second, you are invisible.
(Read Ralph Ellison on this one.)
Third, you're funny.
(Ref., Polish and Irish Jokes.)
Fourth, you are disgusting.
(Turkish tobacco makes Germans vomit.)
Fifth, you are a citizen.
(Learn to spell McDonald's.)
Sixth, you live in Arizona.
(Just what papers should I have?)

Give me your tired and your poor.
wait a minute, we're not so sure.


Maybe Kim Doyle is an "illegal."  He only carries a drivers permit, and that's so easy to get.
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