“Immigrants, and especially undocumented immigrants, have this abusive relationship with America,” says MrRafaelAgustin. “We love this country so much, and it just won’t love us back. But... hope that one day America will see the error of its ways.”
’s nanny. “She had a bunch of his signed posters and I asked for one,” Agustin says. At 12 he wasn’t a Doors fan, but as his family bounced around from one Southern California town to another, struggling to hold on to jobs and pay the rent, he was enamored with the connection to wealth and fame.
But it also caused confusion: One day he and his father saw immigration officials chasing someone. When young Rafael asked a question in their native tongue, his panicked father warned, “Don’t speak Spanish.” Not understanding the implications, he felt ashamed, and refused to speak Spanish for years.For decades, poets without legal status were excluded from prizes. A group called Undocupoets changed that — and then founded a prize of its own.
He coped by burying his identity. “I decided I’d be the most popular kid in school,” Agustin says. “I became class president and prom king and a top 10 student so no one would ever suspect the truth about me.”
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