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It was as if he had stood me squarely before the world, removed the blindfold, and ordered me to open my eyes.
It is not your right to feel powerless.
Better people than you were powerless.
Before enduring it we will endure it.
One can live without having survived
That from which these things are born
That by which they live
That to which they return at death
Try to know that
In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.
There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.
We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.
People think that what happens to someone else has nothing to do with them. They think that what happens in one place doesn't matter any place else.
I take off my shirt, I show you.
I shaved the hair out under my arms.
I roll up my pants, I scraped off the hair
on my legs with a knife, getting white.
My hair is the color of chopped maples.
My eyes dark as beans cooked in the south.
(Coal fields in the moon on torn-up hills)
Skin polished as a Ming bowl
showing its blood cracks, its age, I have hundreds
of names for the snow, for this, all of them quiet.
In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.
You recognize strangers,
think you lived through destruction.
You can't explain this night, my face, your memory.
You want to know what I know?
Your own hands are lying.
If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.
the silence of God is God.
...it was becoming obvious that the war he had been anticipating, "in three to five years" might have already begun, as many wars do begin, he said, not with a major event reported in the news but with sufferings barely noticed: an unjust law, a murder, a peaceful protest march attacked by police. It begins, according to Leonel, with poverty endured by many and corruption benefiting the few, with crimes unpunished, a hardening of positions, the failure of peaceful means of appeal and redress.
