From 'I Explain Some Things' by Pablo Neruda, about the Spanish Civil War. Translated by Mark Eisner
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From 'I Explain Some Things' by Pablo Neruda, about the Spanish Civil War. Translated by Mark Eisner
Come and see the blood in the streets,
come and see
the blood in the streets,
come and see the blood
in the streets!
You will ask why his poetry
doesn’t speak to us of dreams, of the leaves,
of the great volcanoes of his native land?
yet from every dead child rises a rifle with eyes,
yet from every crime bullets are born
that one day will find the target
of your heart.
Traitor
generals:
behold my dead house,
behold Spain destroyed:
yet instead of flowers, from every dead house
burning metal flows,
yet from every hollow of Spain
Spain flows,
Jackals the jackal would reject,
stones the dry thistle would bite then spit out,
vipers the vipers would despise!
Facing you I have seen the blood
of Spain rise up
to drown you in one single wave
of pride and knives!
Bandits with airplanes and with Moors
bandits with finger-rings and duchesses,
bandits with black friars making blessings,
kept coming from the sky to kill children,
and through the streets the blood of the children
ran simply, like children’s blood.
And one morning everything was burning
and one morning the fires
were shooting out of the earth
devouring beings,
and ever since then fire,
gunpowder ever since,
and ever since then blood.
Every time it rains in San Francisco, let that increase your empathy for the unhoused.
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Never cross a picket line.
Photo of the steering wheel of a transit bus.
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They have all gone to that eternal uncontained lithium battery fire in the sky. 🙏
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Last summer I visited Paris and walked the entire length of the Original Transit Route. Afterwards I visited the church where Pascal died and is interred, to place a .05¢ piece on his resting place.
as the night lows drop to almost freezing across the bay where most people let alone the unhoused are prepared for it im thinking of this once again.
i hope for a day where the empathy can be towards keeping everyone housed forever because we have ended homelessness through compassion
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Love this fun little civic victory brought to our attention by my longtime @sfchronicle.com colleague Sam Whiting.
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...
Every time it rains in San Francisco, let that increase your empathy for the unhoused.
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“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
