* La vaca, "the cow" in Spanish.
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If my sorrow were deeper I’d be, along with you, under the ocean’s floor; but today I learn that the oil that pools beneath the ocean floor
Reminding us, as they witnessed our curiosity about them, that no matter the losses, there’s something fabulous going on at every stage of Life, something to let go of, maybe, but for d...
My brothers knew The things you know. I did not scorn learning them; It’s just my mind
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
When they torture your mother plant a tree When they torture your father plant a tree When they torture your brother
As if I’ve swallowed A watermelon And Sidestepping My digestive tract
If I was President The first thing I would do is call Mumia Abu—Jamal. No, if I was president
Word reaches us that you are sleeping, sleeping. Dismayed we have turned to the sea. We encounter among others
The old men used to sing And lifted a brother Carefully Out the door I used to think they
Remember When we ended It all —for a weekend— & how
With your unknown to me Odd magic You came To me:
How can Humanity look the deer in the face? How can I,
I said to Poetry:"I’m finished with you." Having to almost die before some wierd light comes creeping through
Before I leave the stage I will sing the only song I was meant truly to sing. It is the song of I AM.
When you see water in a stream you say: oh, this is stream water; When you see water in the river you say: oh, this is water