Bad Bunny Thinks It’s Funny
by Marco Katz Montiel / October 26th, 2025
The United States has no official
Idioma. (Only Congress can do that.)
Tenemos el derecho and we shall
Speak Spanish even if it starts a spat.
¡Oye! Bad Bunny, créalo o no,
Nació un estadounidense,
And the United States, statistics show,
Has more Spanish-speakers than Spain today.
Bad Bunny thinks it’s funny. He won’t mince
Words with those who do not know what they mean.
If you don’t get it, you have four months since
The Second of March Nineteen-Seventeen
To go back and catch up on what you’ve missed:
Our language, even if some still resist.
Marco Katz Montiel composes poetry and prose in Spanish, English, and musical notes. He went to college late, and then alienated one university by publishing about bigotry on campus and got kicked to the curb by two others for his union activities. Still, Marco managed to graduate and even publish a book on music and literature with Palgrave. His essays, poems, and stories appear in
Ploughshares,
Jerry Jazz Music,
English Studies in Latin America,
Copihue Poetry,
Camino Real,
WestWard Quarterly,
Lowestoft Chronicle,
Dissident Voice, and in the anthologies
Cartas de desamor y otras adicciones,
There’s No Place, and the
Capital City Press Anthology.
Read other articles by Marco Katz, or
visit Marco Katz's website.
This article was posted on Sunday, October 26th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
