Ayotzinapa [the place of small turtles]

Ayotzinapa [lugar de las tortuguitas]

Para los 43 normalistas desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa | For the 43 student-teachers disappeared from Ayotzinapa

Ayotzin
tortuguita
de 43 heridas
americatzin
continente dulce
contaminado por
un imperio podrido
de 43 guerras sin fin
ahora
43
familias
43
desaparecidos
43
imperios destruidos
por
43
maestros
43
lugares
alrededor
del mundo
que se juntan
en el rincón
de américa
llamado
guerrero
ombligo lunar ...

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Ayotzinapa [Place of the small turtles]

Ayotzin
precious turtle
with 43 wounds
beloved américa
rotting empire
with 43 wars without end
43
families
43
disappeared
43
empires to be destroyed
by
43
teachers
43
places
from around the world
converge
in a corner
of América
called
warrior
belly button of the moon...

[Poema 15] Song against the bombs

1.
My love,
listen
the bombs
make it hard to hear
the honey of your voice
the burning flesh
quashes
the aroma of our flowers
Listen,
my love.
We can't bury ourselves
in each other's melodious panting
with the whining threat of jets overhead
My heart
trembles
for you,
the bombs rattle
the land,
our bodies
go up
in a mushroom cloud
is it ecstasy or extermination
why are we not
inside each other?

2.
Invadidos

When I talked
they said
I growled
When I wrote
they said
nonsense
When I left them
they called me
traitor

When they called me back
they found out
they had to follow me.

They turned
my land
upside
down
and came to the conclusion
that I was lost.

Now I am free.

3.
Cuántas bombas
han lanzado
cuántas afganís
han molido
cuántos dioses
han perdido
sus creyentes
a manos
de sus creídos?

War Son | April 9: 9th Poem

Arnoldo García

War Son

Cindy Sheehan will not pay federal taxes
Has not, will not, for the last eight years
Her son was killed in the U.S. war on Iraq eight years ago
She says:
I will pay all my taxes
when you give me back my son alive.
The war, all wars, declared or undecrlared
Are immoral, illegal
The U.S. invaded Iraq to force Iraqis
to pay their taxes to the empire of oil and military
Her son, a soldier of the empire
Was killed in Iraq
Cindy Sheehan and five thousand other U.S. familiesPaid the ultimate war tax
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi families paid
All the back taxes owed to the U.S. empire since 1492
 An anti-community war
An anti-local peace war 

The first casualty of the US war on Iraqi
was an immigrant

An anti-immigrant war
An anti-family war
An anti-mother war
An anti-natural world, anti-air, anti-soil, anti-ants, worms, birds, beasts war
The breast milk of Iraqi women is contaminated with uranium
A war on the wombs of humanity
An anti-woman war
An anti-breast-feeding war
An anti-fetus war
A war on the future
A war on the womb of humanity
A war on the cradle of civilization
A war on all Iraqis
And anyone who looks like one
A racial profiling war at home and abroad
An anti-Indian war
An anti-indigenous war
A war on pollen
A war on cross-pollination
A war on flowers and song
A war on our ancestors
A war against dinosaurs
A war on the dust of the big bang
A war against the stars
An anti-star war
A glorification of the fantasies
of the master card race.
A war of bullet, bomb, nuke, military words against tongues that only flap poems
A war on poetry
A war on poets
A war on language
A war to militarize the heart
A war against beats & flows
A war against the DNA of stars and suns

Cindy Sheehan
will not pay her taxes
Until the war on Muslims ends
Until the war on Buddhists ends
Until the war on Anahuac ends
Until the war on Mama Pacha ends
Until the war in our souls end 
Until the war on Christians ends
Until the war on Christ ends
Until the anti-christ war ends
Until wars end
Can the federal government resurrect her son
on the third day?
on the third world war?
on the infinite wound of tenderness
against the infinite war of wars?