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4 People on the Stage, all standing. PERSON 2 should be woman/woman identified and should be able to pronounce the Spanish words naturally. For PERSONS 1, 3, 4, race/ethnicity doesn’t matter, but appropriate casting should be made considering it is a play about primarily POC immigrant experiences.

The dialogue should be fast, a little angry, and recited as if it were spoken word.

PERSON 1: How do we tell this white man, free of the debt owed by his ancestors to ours, that this was my land, divided by his border, man-made like his own sense of entitlement?

PERSON 2: How do I explain to this white woman, the words that roll of my tongue, thick, soft, y con tremendo gusto, are not for her pleasure or her understanding? They belong to me and my grandmother in the grocery line. Chismoseando. Like always.

PERSON 3: How do I explain that in between a plane ticket and a certificate there are thousands of other pieces of paper in between? I chase that paper to pay for my own piece of paper, wave it around like our beloved red white and blue. At a ceremony I called out of work for.

PERSON 4: and how, how am I expected to wake up, brush my teeth, take a shit, go to work, smile. You flick misconceptions off your tongue, watch them sizzle on my back. I go home and play with my kids and cook a meal. I take a bath and do it all over.