Next to the fourteen excellent reasons
to make February the month of love,
which serve to advertise the best mattresses
for double beds, queen or king size
I read, just as in the heyday
of Colonialism:

"The soldiers ask the indigenous
people to transport them on horses;
if there aren't any, they force them
to carry them on their backs."

From Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women, edited and translated by Jen Hofer, © 2003. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. All rights reserved.