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Paradise/Paraìso

Yen Lo
1 min readSep 4, 2019

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Elderly brown-skinned Panamanian man in a blue shirt and dark slacks walking by a bust stop; shopping bag in hand.
via Dave Valvo

Black and brown…

The dew of sweat on their upper lips.

They’re coming home from the market,

with brightly colored bags.

They never look down…

Always ahead.

An ode to the Panamanians in my neighborhood.

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Yen Lo
Yen Lo

Written by Yen Lo

Not concerned with propriety. Liberation now. Contrarian by design. Black mother. Somebody’s daughter. Guerrilla in the mist. Imperfect Christian.

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