21st Century Revolutionay I own no gun nor wear a beret I have only ridden a motorcycle twice - for very short distances - and kept no diary True, I live among the oppressed, the exploited, the sleepwalking chattel of capitalism, the indebted, the enslaved But when I appeal to my brothers and sisters with my words explaining the modern yoke devised by bankers to seem like a piece of jewellery or epaulet or, better yet, nothing at all Between the txt, the tweet and the TV there is no room Although, to be fair, when I don the T-shirt on a sunny day in town I will occasionally get a smile It must remind them of the movie ________________________________________________________________________ Emanuel E. García, Leaf Thoughts, One Hundred Poems, 2013 |
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