No Damn Yankee

(Paul Perry, actor, baseball manager, and poet lives and works in Buenos Aires. His published works include 'Buenos Aires: A Train Ride over the Rainbow', 'Buenos Aires Chronicles - Poetically Porteño', 'Poetically Stoned', 'Philly Poems' and 'Tales, Poemas desde el fondo de la pecera'.)

no damn yankee

by paul perry (1994)

yeah,

i'm a Yankee

but at home i listen to the Redondos,

loud

real loud,

and then i'll put on some Sumo

and Charlie

and blend it in with a little Garcia of my own;

Jerry style.

yeah i´m a yankee,

and sometimes hit BK or Mickie Dees,

but at home call me porteño,

sparking up the parilla

and whipping up those asados and choris.

yeah i´m a yankee

and grew up drinking that Bud

but at home call me porteño

drinking that Quilmes ale

or uncorking a bottle of Vasco Viejo.

yeah i'm a yankee,

and my Philly nostalgia sometimes comes along

but it's this southern backward town

the place i call home.