SOME THOUGHTS
SOME INTERESTINGLY EXPANSIVE THOUGHTS
SOME THOUGHTS THAT SPILL OVER INTO
BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE
AND INTO EVERY YARD...
OR COULD...
WILL....
THE MEXICAN PEASANT
THE MAN WHO HAS NO LAND
WHO WALKS ON THE LAND
WHO SEES NOT THE BORDERS,
BUT ONLY WHAT GROWS OR DOES NOT
YES, THAT MAN
HE CAN BE THAT MAN
AND NOT KNOW IT
HE NOW RETURNS TO HIS LAND,
LEAVING BEHIND THE LAND OF PLENTY
A FAILING LAND
A LAND OF APPEARANCES,
OF FAILED ILLUSIONS,
OF DESTRUCTIVE ARTIFICE,
OF EXCESS AND ESTRANGEMENT
FROM SIMPLICITY
FROM TRUTH
GREEN PASTURES
(MORE DEAD TREES)
PAINTED OLIGARCHS IN CIRCLES
WATCHFUL EYES IN TRIANGLES
HIS NATIVE LAND
A NEW BEGINNING,
SIMPLICITY AND CLOSENESS TO THE EARTH.
POOR, POOR MAN,
POOR PEASANT MAN
RETURNED TO BE POOR
TO BE FRUGAL, TO BE DEEPER
TO BE SILENCED, TO BE EXCLUDED
IN THE UNDEVELOPING WORLD
IN THAT
ECOSYSTEM AND CLIMATE OF ORIGIN.
LESS PERMEATED BY ANXIETY
BY GENERALIZED OBSESSION
WITH ALL THINGS SUPERFLUOUS
HE WILL NOT MISS
THE CHICANA WITH BIG CHIP ON SHOULDER
GOVERNMENT JOB AT POST OFFICE
ANGER INSIDE
BAD ENGLISH
BAD SPANISH
ANGER INSIDE
OR BEING HELD AS SECOND CLASS INDIVIDUAL,
A POLITICAL PROBLEM
ALL THOSE GOODIES THE BLACKS USED TO HAVE
ALL TO THEMSELVES.
THE WORLD OF MAN DOMINATING MAN,
OF MAN LABELING MAN,
THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT UNDER ANY FLAG,
UNDER ANY CONSTITUTION,
ON EITHER SIDE OF ANY FENCE.
IN ABSENCE OF THE SUPERFLUOUS,
IN ABSENCE OF WHAT IS ENSLAVING
IN ABSENCE OF WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL AND CONTRIVED
CREATIVITY AND RESOURCEFULNESS
ARE BROUGHT INTO THE FOREFRONT OF HUMAN MINDS.
CARELESS ASSESSMENT OF OUR CONDITIONS
CONFORM THE IDEA OF POVERTY AND NEED.
A LACK OF MONEY NEED NOT BE POVERTY,
BUT FREEDOM TO BE MORE FULLY, MORE ESSENTIALLY
AN ENTICEMENT TO BE MORE CREATIVE.
THE NATURAL WORLD IS A MIRACULOUS PLACE,
AND WE ARE PART OF THIS NATURAL ORDER.
THE COUNTRY WE MUST ALL COME TO CHERISH
IS THE LAND ITSELF,
THIS PROVIDENTIAL EARTH,
THE ONE WE ALL STAND ON.
MODERN STATES FALL SHORT OF THIS IDEAL.
MOURN THE MODERNS STATES
THEY WILL FALL
THEY WILL BE GONE
TIME ITSELF WILL BE QUESTIONED
AND ABOLISHED
AND HISTORY SEEN NAKED
PAINTED WITH UNBECOMING COLORS
AND WHOSE HISTORY ANYWAY?.
BE GONE
BE GONE
BE GONE
HISTORY OF THE LAST MINUTE
BE GONE
THE SOLUTION LIES IN THE FUTURE,
IN THE RE-EDUCATION OF SOCIETY.
THE PEASANT IN ALL OF US
THE PEASANT RETURNING
IN ALL OF US
IT WILL SOON BE ALL OF US
OR NO ONE AT ALL
ONLY DEATH
DEATH TO THE CROPS
TO THE CROPS OF A FORGOTTEN SUN
DEATH TO US
US
THE FUTURE AND THE PAST
A GREAT UNFINISHED TASK
ALL OVER THE WORLD,
IN ALL COUNTRIES
MAY THE RECOGNITION
OF UNDERLYING UNITY
BE AWAKENED
NO MORE EXCEPTIONS,
NO MORE GENOCIDES
NO MORE EXCLUSIONS
WE ARE RICH, WE ARE BOUNTIFUL
WE ARE THAT PEASANT
WE ARE THE EARTH
WE ARE EARTH.
WEALTH AND POVERTY ARE LIES
LIES CREATED BY PREDOMINANT MINDSETS
PERPETUATED BY THE SAME OLD OBJECTIVES
STEMMING FROM FEAR
NO FUTURE THERE
LET US ALL LEAVE THEN
LET US ALL RETURN TO THE LAND
LET US ALL BEHOLD THE LEAVES OF GRASS
THE MOIST EARTH
THE WORM IN OUR HAND
MAN RETURNS TO HIS LAND
WEALTH LIES AT HIS FEET
LOOK WITH RENEWED EYES.
MAY ENLIGHTENED IDEAS
COME TO OUR AID
ALL OF US
WHO INHABIT THIS EARTH.
OM
THE ESSENCE OF MIND
AND OF BEING
IS ENLIGHTENMENT.
WE ARE
WE ARE MIRACLES EVERY DAY
