Today's TLA is TAS

Tamales and Starbucks
(My tribute to the Tamale lady from San Jose, California)

La abuela de las tamales gathers the corn.
Her labor of love every year, to make her tamales delight.
Generations and generations of brown people are born.
People eat, drink, laugh, and share. They make you feel just right.

La abuela de las tamales waits by her car.
People buy them for a party.
Languid crowds can smell them from a far.
They are made for comfort, for security, for taste, and to be incredibly hearty.

La abuela de las tamales sells them with ease.
A teenage woman is on her break.
Her cautious respectful tone asks,"Twenty four tamales, please."
Starbucks only offers a 15 minute break, Her job is now at stake.

She is a corporate slave at 18 years of age.
The twenty four tamales makes her family Christmas holidays.
Inside her, builds a steady increasing rage.
Working instead of being with her family destroys her in so many ways.

La abuela de las tamales can't rescue her from the situation.
All she can offer is her tamales delight.
But what can the corporate slave do in this capitalist nation.
She eats the tamale and is ready to fight.

La abuela de las tamales reminds us of truth from within.
La abuela de las tamales feeds us fuel for the fight.
La abuela de las tamales gives us strength when we are thin.
La abuela de las tamales, oh how we love your tamales delight.

Enjoy,
Jonathan