Until Now
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You were selling Beanie Babies on eBay I was thinking about my future You were on a student visa That we discovered it could be upgraded To a work study visa If you got a real job Maybe you'd find a path To a real work visa To a green card And eventually To American citizenship Finally you went on an interview And asked if they would sponsor you For a work visa Down the line They said they would And then a year and a half later You walked out In the middle of your shift Because the big boss was in town And you had met with her You asked about your work visa application And she said it turned out that they Wouldn't be able to sponsor you By the way Everything spun In every direction Not only that You had debts to pay (Some to me) And now you weren't working You weren't bringing home a cheque And you told me that you weren't going to go back To your job That was out of the question You were even going to have them Send your final cheque In the mail We checked with an immigration lawyer And talked about you Extending your student visa With a master's degree But you were as resolutely Done with school As you were done with your job So I cried all night Imagining what it must be like To be you right now And I called my friend And she went out to breakfast with me When the sun came up After I got some sleep I asked you over and told you I'd do anything But stay with you Here If you were illegal But I assured you I'd understand If you wanted to stay It's all you've known Since you were eleven I just wasn't going to put myself Through that hell again It took a couple days But then you made up your mind In the way you always did Done No matter what anyone would say No matter what anyone said And they said a lot To you To me Everyone thought There must be another way The Mayor of San Francisco Had gone rogue And was handing out marriage certificates To same-sex couples And same-sex marriage was legal-actually legal In Massachusetts Everyone said Yes-but that doesn't help in our situation Immigration rights don't have anything to do With municipalities or states Anyway And even though it wasn't going to make a difference We made an appointment On the internet To get married in San Francisco And I was surprised About how excited I started to feel About it Everyone was going to come But then the California Supreme Court Said otherwise We set our sights on Canada Because they would let us Apply and immigrate together If we got notarized statements about the veracity Of our relationship from our friends And combined our finances And then I found out Just how much money You owed To credit cards Because your dad, who had been rich When he sent you here Wasn't anymore And you had to pay your own international student tuition And even though your dad Had bought houses for all four of his siblings In California You weren't going to ask You weren't going to beg For anything from your aunts or uncles They hadn't given anything back To your father When he asked They just gossiped about his gambling The needless risks he took That didn't work out for him Even if his risks worked out Pretty nicely for them You didn't want to talk about it You didn't want to think about it It was just too complicated Pointless A waste of energy We thought about you declaring bankruptcy But didn't know what that might do To our application to Canada And we didn't have time to look into all the details So I just loaded up my low-interest credit cards With the quickly-doubling Balances from yours And I consoled myself That this wasn't something you'd hid It wasn't a lie of omission It just hadn't been Any of my business Up until now
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