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Here's another ancestor.

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In Spanish, the word grito
has political connotations.

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It literally means
a cry or a shout,

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but it also has to do
with rebellion, uprising.

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This is a poem called
"El Grito de Pepaberta."

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Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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"100 years ago, on coquí
frog chanting nights,

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ancestor Pepaberta would lift
the oil lamp and stuff a pistol

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in her waist for travels to
the outhouse leaning between

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the hills--

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dueling with rodent viceroys,
and their insect infantry,

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and no one asked who else.

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The shots spooked
the roosters that

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hollered in the dark,
woke men muttering

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about la loca, who kept their
bladders full till morning."

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