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Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

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Gaia

0 posted 2006-06-14 03:39 PM

LA
busy uprooting itself again

by handfuls of veggies
growing in an inner city garden
in a place that once ripped apart its own heart
by rioting and acts of desperation

it became a haven, maybe a heaven
for many hungry families
that learned to grow and share
bountiful harvests from nature's womb

and it's all coming undone,
in part because someone vented
in ignorance and anger,
spouted venom
and then asked, no demanded
something for nothing

and that hit the bulls eye
targeting the owner (by real estate law)

and he reacted as so many do
when feeling cornered

"Vengeance IS mine"

and he called in the troops
(the LAPD)
to uproot the community gardens,
as he makes plans to recover the good earth
with concrete and steel

and both sides of the battle
seek to steal
what doesn't really belong
to anyone anyway

for when you leave spaceship Earth
(thanks Bucky Fuller)
you can't take it with you anyway...

even when you are buried
in the dirt

it doesn't belong
to you

"there must be some way out of here"
(thanks Bob)

Jess
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since 2006-06-06

Posts 243
Washington

1 posted 2006-06-14 03:44 PM

"it became a haven, maybe a heaven" You've been busy, i see. You're recent works have all been so darn good! Powerful really, for lack of a better word. Give me more! More, i say!

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2006-06-14 03:53 PM

lol, yes, the news of the day
and personal memories of LA
all merging together

Goldenrose
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since 2003-05-30

Posts 3665

3 posted 2006-06-14 04:07 PM

A fine remembering poem Kacy..thank you..

Goldenrose.

ChaoticHazeLight
Member

since 2006-06-13

Posts 71
California, U.S.

4 posted 2006-06-14 04:15 PM

Painful...

-Haze

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

5 posted 2006-06-14 05:43 PM

"LA
busy uprooting itself again"

Amen Kacy. Is this the garden where Daryl Hannah got caught up a tree?

Wonderfully done and thanks for the reminder of Buckminster Fuller. He's a hero of mine.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2006-06-14 06:22 PM

Phil, Haze, Lady..thanks for reading
Yes, m'Lady, 'tis about the same garden the mermaid star defended, though it's not about Hannah or Hollyweird.
I almost made the title of the poem Garden of Paradise or Hell's Garden.
Gawd, I love reading Bucky!

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