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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296
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Crepe-paper fluorescents hanging their coats Singing with forty-watt radios Fingernails digging into social workers Holding on by a tooth To hit or miss pumpkin-colored skies In the night…alone, Indian women, drunk with spirits Driving cars right through death Onto, the other side of realization Now whose the native loosing their land? Someone has to form silky loops? Even if the elevator goes down! Telephones Ringing everywhere, Soft-wear engineers with Low scooped necklines volunteering News media dressed for migration Green cards whispering “You complete me” Screwing sunflowers in the sky Like a dangerous tickle in my throat Someone, please throw me A bottlebrush To clean black echoes From my church, wearing priests cloths Closing hospitals…. Rubbing my eyes clean of organized religion Meager furnishings never scared me Nor do uninvited guests throwing stones I ponder, how can these people give What they’ve never known? For a work visa, destination unknown? Long as there is a lamp on the table next to me I would die to keep that balance That quite place, wanting me For my child, for the elderly For the kind of work we all do Together as a team It’s not about the money But…pulling the door shut to separations They’re putting out cigarette butts In the name of health? In the name of welfare Opening up lines to superhighways 6 million people doodling 3 sur-names With 3 different photos on their shirts While the gatekeepers determine whose names They draw…and Congress turns their heads Sanctions given to employers Who hire monthly subscriptions, Under minimum wage… While our children watch sesame street in Spanish Pretending to enjoy work permits Pushing air pollution off rock jetties In the middle of the night Lest they draw an audience While playing with fire Bi-lingual yachts beached in California Welcome to the USA Everything’s for free! Why, we’ll even print manuals in your language Watch your favorite soap operas on TV in other languages? Generate counseling cause your child feels out of place? Doesn’t feel like he/she fits in? but, they drive without insurance or licenses???? Where's the justice and who do you think is paying for their lawyers? |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Long as there is a lamp on the table next to me I would die to keep that balance That quite place, wanting me We all need that quiet place Lee. Enjoyed your thoughts today very much. The greatest beauty on earth, is |
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Toerag Member Ascendant
since 1999-07-29
Posts 5622Ala bam a |
True words...and sad state we've become.. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Wow, I held my breath reading this. Enjoyed immensely. Maree  cuz fate is not just whose cooking smells good |
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ecrivan Member Elite
since 2001-12-10
Posts 3923my own state |
enjoyed the recollection of the inside of an immigration centre with the hustle abd bustle, the waiting lines and forms to fill everywhere... |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
LeeJ You hit the nail of truth with a intelligent hammer.  |
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