Well, aren’t you the lucky one, Miss Deisy!
You’ve just won a free trip to México!
If you turn it down, that would be crazy.
But why you? That part seems a bit hazy.
Anyways…you’re the one that gets to go,
right? Aren’t you the lucky one, Miss Deisy.
Staying at home seems just a bit lazy
when all your snowbird neighbors say, “Good show!
Don’t turn it down. That would be just crazy!”
Your man picked the army for all days. He
got this prize; you get to bask in his glow.
Yes, aren’t you the lucky one Miss Deisy!
When Afghanistan became ablaze, he
did not demur, but fought like G.I. Joe.
If you turn it down, that would be crazy.
Years of service taught him many ways. See
the world, they said, then watch your family grow.
So, aren’t you the lucky one, Miss Deisy!
If you turn it down, that would be crazy.
Note from the poet: Many people in the United States would love to win a free trip to México; few wish to lose the right to return. Nothing in this news report (or any of the others I’ve read) about Deisy Ortega Rivera and her husband—José Serrano, who served twenty-seven years in the US Army—suggest that she has done anything to deserve this prize or this punishment.
See “Family ‘is heartbroken’ after learning wife of Army soldier won’t be released by ICE after all” by Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 22 April 2026.