all those years of training      
and i still don't know      
what to write.      

do i tell you about being       
born in virginia and moving       
to the dominican republic       
when I was 3?       

or about the time i went       
to mexico to photograph       
chichen itza and had       
to run furiously through       
the jungle to escape       
two men with machetes?       

do you even care that       
I can speak 5 languages       
and have two degrees?       

probably not.      

because if nothing i do      
moves you then who cares.