
poetic ethnography::chants

poetic ethnography::chants

poetic ethnography::chants

poetic ethnography::chants
take.
take it down. take it slow. take care.
take your time. take it easy. take back, what’s yours.
take it all down-
all the heroes and churches,
idols and figures,
social and political.
will all
remember you
as some clown from around.
the one,
no one knew well enough
to care about.
don’t
allow anyone
the ability
to turn you
into an insignificant
little ant.
then again,
whatever one may do,
let no one
take one down.
life is ones.
let no one
take it away.
07.25.02.

poetic ethnography::chants
revolution pose.
I.
cannot afford the
patience of a
pacifist,
fist,
fist
through the air.
II.
long, long meetings,
readings,
leninists and marxists
speaking
without ending.
III.
an alien
under this nation,
a dissident
that can’t pretend-
consent/defend
an international incident
created by capitalist governments.
sitting under a wishing
tree, wishing
to be palestinian or muslim.
stuck inside this mexican skin,
wondering
where the revolution
migrated to or went.
IV.
how goes the movement now?
red work and mass work.
theory and practice and schisms.
gentrification and police brutality and the masses
slowly fading away.
wasting like energy inverted on itself.
how goes the movement now?
09.10.02.

poetic ethnography::chants

poetic ethnography::chants

poetic ethnography::chants