We Seek Asylum - Gustavo Aybar

Using his beloved pastime of baseball as an allegory, poet Gustavo Adolfo Aybar debuts a tour de force meditation on the battle for the soul of the Dominican Republic.

Alabanza...and one said with a Spanish tongue:
let me play; we have no field here. 
And the other said with an African tongue,
I will let you play. Baseball is all we have.

--from We Seek Asylum