Definitions
My last name is spelt G-O-N-Z-A-L-E-Z
I share this name with many.
I share it with mothers and fathers, with farmers and buiness men
I share it with the majority of my school
I share it with thugs
I share it with priests
I share it with people I will never meet
I share it with people I wish I hasn't
This name paints me in the colors of a heritage I never asked for but would never refuse
This name is pronouced many ways.
It is pronunced Spick
It is pronounced Wet back
Beaner
Cheap labor
Jumper
But this is not as the dictionary told me to say it.
It is pronouced Gonzalez
So it makes me wonder from time to time, how exactly it got so lost in translation.
How the definition was so blurred from mouth a to mind b
How it was lost in a second and no one thought to look
But we have more important things to deal with right now
So what is it to the world if it loses one more definition?