I am from a playground place. Our oceans that we need for fish are cleared so extranjeros can kite surf. Our land, lush & green, is bought & sold to foreign powers so they can build luxury hotels for others to rest their heads. The bananas & yucca & sugarcane farmed & harvested, exported, while kids thank God for every little scrap. The developed world wastes gas, raises carbon emissions & water levels that threaten to disappear us in a single gulp. Even the women, girls like me, our mothers & tías, our bodies are branded jungle gyms. Men with accents pick us as if from a brochure to
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