I am the old woman
peering through the bar
of that age ghetto
too fearful and confused to cry
I am the swollen child
behind that belly and eyes
in that color ghetto
too hungry to die
I am that conscript
who does not want to kill
the gay individual
who just wants to live
the beaten and trodden
who are not sure they do
the common plodding working sod
too overused to feel
You.
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(c) Phyllis Jean Green
Appeared in Atom Mind {V.4 #14, Summer, l994}
For the reasons I describe in this book, the world-wide suffering, death and extinction of humanity is very likely to occur, unless nonviolent and democratically determined radical and revolutionary personal and societal actions and changes are taken
Black white (well sort of pinkish) etcetera, Christian Muslim etcetera, Hetero-Homo-Metro Sexual, Physical, Mental, Ow! Includes all human rights violations I could think of.
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Well done! I mean that quite literally and sincerely, good piece, pregnant and rich.
Rodney Bohen