“Cozumel, et al”
It likes to fashion itself a tourist
town, but the plain truth is that it is
like every other windblown community
on Mexico’s bustling eastern coast,
shunning the word “trap” but fleecing
its bread and butter as they stream
off cruise ships, stumble through
Spanish and waltz off with pride
for arguing a twenty-dollar necklace
down to eight, never knowing its real
value is a buck and a half.
Matthew Bosisio, a longtime teacher at two universities, is retired and living in Seattle.
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