No one asks
where I am from,
 I must be
from the country of janitors,
I have always mopped this floor.
Honduras, you are a squatter's camp
outside the city
of their understanding.
No one can speak my name,
I host the fiesta
of the bathroom, 
stirring the toilet
like a punchbowl.
The Spanish music of my name
is lost
when the guests complain
about toilet paper.
What they say
must be true:
I am smart
but I have a bad attitude.
No one knows 
that I quit tonight,
maybe the mop
will push on without me,
sniffing along the floor
like a crazy squid
with stringy gray tentacles.
They will call it Jorge.

In Martín Espada’s “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits, “the poet points out that he is from another country. His work is to mop the floor in the church where is the most clean and holy place in this city. He works hard for his life. However, none respect him in this country. He cannot bear this kind of insult and disrespect. In order to keep his dignity, he quits his job. Although, he now cannot make a living, he regards the respect and dignity as the most expensive things in his life. The poet gradually reveals his upset and loneness in every stanza. In first stanza, he begins with “no on asks where I am from.” From this quote, he tells how lonely he is in this city. He has no friend and no one cares about him. He is outsider of this city, so he just can concentrate on working every day. For the second stanza, he also begins with the sentence “no one can speak my name.” In other people’s eyes, he is just a worker who mops the floor and cleans the toilet. People will notice him when there is no toilet paper and his name does not deserve others to remember. He tells how he is disrespected in this city as a worker and outsider. However, he respects himself under this condition. He does not feel he is inferior to others and he is not shamed as a worker. The third