The Lepanto Union
Gold rest in chunks of gravel
and ore, rice, sugar,
and milk, torches, flags.
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Third World
I love you sunrise after sunrise. I love you dark brown earth.
I love you sweat, bread, wood. I love you fruits, fish. I love you
rivers, valleys, shy birds, forests. I love you ballads, lullabies,
prayers. I love you workers, markets, factories, fields of tears,
famine, poison. I love you history, culture. I love you slaves, bullets,
guns, manifestos of resistance.
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