Arnoldo García

The commonest manifesto (excerpts)

the hammer and sickle was the first successful world-wide branding of a revolution.

You'd never mistake the hammer and the sickle, a worker, a campesino, an industrial

revolution claiming the lives of ecologies, farmlands, the earth's dna in humanity, seeds,

continental confluences, tributaries and ocean world currents bringing us together

colonization, crystallization of human bones and communes now crying out

for a return to the thirst

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I don't want a working class revolution.

I want to dismantle the industrial smokestacks, the oil refineries, the paving over of aquifers,

dissolve the combustible explosion, dismember the nuclear imagination into

small quarks of tenderness for the natural world

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The art of the commune starts somewhere even on a factory floor

where the human automatons rebel, refuse work, refuse to be appendages

the human appendicitis is coming to a peak oil stop

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proletari-arte to dehumanize humans,

make them creatures of the water-ways and seasonal migrations

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this is the commonest manifesto:

clean air

clear water

clean soil

for human community

needs

winds in her lungs and to dry her tears

xocolatl (muddy waters) to mix it up with the ancestors of today and tomorrow

dirt-eaters all: maize, beans, calabacitas (squash), chiles, flores, hierbas (weeds and herbs)

we eat dirt by eating plants that sprout their wings in the dirt

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