After I read this I picked up a book on my shelf called "The Destiny of europe's Gypsies" by Donald Penrick and Grattan Puxon, which, like so many good books is out if print now. It's largely about the Roma Holocaust, which is so often marginalised and forgotten, maybe because in a sense it never stopped.

But at the end the book gets into the matter of aspirations for a homeland, a Romanestan. And there's a quote from activist Ronald Lee which I like:

"What is Romanestan? I will tell you brothers. Romanestan is our freedom, freedom to lve as Gypsies under our laws and our way of life."

I was glad to see you use the term Gypsy in the poem Larry. I think it deserves to be reclaimed for the Roma ppeople, not just thrown away.