Request for poem

Hey gang…hope you can help me out. I’m trying to locate a poem for someone, and I can’t for the life of me find it in any of my anthologies that are close at hand. Anyone know it, and where I might find it online?

It’s a piece about multiculturalism and people’s perceptions of race. I believe it’s by a woman of Mediterranean background, but I could be wrong about that; it’s a series of accounts of her various encounters with people who are trying to peg her and can’t.

The last section goes something like this:

She looked at me and asked,
are you the colonizer
or the colonized?

I said,
which do you think?

You could be either,
she replied.

Anyone got a clue? I thank you a lot.

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