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Voices 39
Voices 39

因守家園幾十秋
千思萬想始奔勞
竟至埃崙留候所
誰知墨境禁人遊

I tended house and home for dozens of years;
After thinking it over a thousand times, I began this journey.
When I arrived at the island, I was put in the detention center
Who knew that even Mexico forbids entrance?

Listen to the poem in Cantonese ⏯

Translations:
Egan, Charles. Voices of Angel Island: Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-1945. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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