How are you, Panama?
Very well.
(Joe’s Bar and Jimmy’s Cabaret).
Yes?
Sí.
Brother Panamanian,
don’t you dream of Hostos and Martí?
I dream.
Yes?
Sí!
Reprinted from Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolás Guillén. Copyright © 1972 by Roberto Marquez and David Arthur McMurray. Published by the University of Massachusetts Press.