Susel Orellana '00

...Elizabeth Casiano

Current, the current that is my personality my ethnicity the family that made me who I am my physical and inner self, my physique, my mind or lack their of

the resistors those who make it hard for me to pass the woman in dreaded 203 who made my life hell she taught me well taught me that not everyone is out to help me in fact she was determined to screw me the girl who repeatedly says "Hi I'm .... what's your name again? you answer politely but are enraged on the inside because hey she'll say it again tomorrow

the capacitor the energy builds up inside it grows until I have to explode I close the switch, the bulb goes on the light grows stronger when does the voltage stop with the stop of my beating heart I suppose

some have an emf stronger than others you know a stronger personality a stronger heritage not that it makes me bad but I don't know where I'm from remember, I didn't cross the border, the border crossed me where does that leave me anyway a true Texan I suppose,

Santa Ana's dead and gone though I should have died along with my people at the hands of Houston why then is the Texas flag so proudly displayed , .... . T e I was born an Okie, family from who knows where, living the high life m Texas where to next, Providence, a dot on the map

my friends are all back at home in the safety of the Hispanic community the community who doesn't need a language to bond doesn't need a similar heritage, a dance, a skin color we are all just a part of that community, we are all just Texans, San Antonians to be exact

so remind me then, who am I?