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.