Non-utopias | arnoldo garcía

The options
for
our journey
are narrowing/
capitalism
has
become
a super storm
a deep drought
an arctic quarry
an ocean drowning nations
a war of narco-utopians

Indians
have become
Indians
again
following the gravitational fields of their soul
alongside
ghost buffalo bringing back the humans
aztec dancers joining the swirling galaxies
disappeared women chanting away the desert graves
The transition has become forlorn
no socialist, communist, anarchist realm
awaits on the other side of the barricades or the borders
Your body
has become
the most feared weapon
the only organism capable of self-destruction
destroying the habitat of our ancestors' womb
or restoring our place in the geo-cosmic formation of planters | gatherers
The capitalist realm
The one percent of the one percent
The country of those
who take
the fat of the unborn
have broken the circle,
their circle with humanity
No space ship
No virtual reality
No acid trips
No latter day saints
can transport them out of this christian mess
They crucify the new Jesus on drones
They bomb the new Mohammed at weddings
They grovel at the lungs of our last new Buddhists breath
The holy story has never referred to us the immigrant-indian landless shadow
The holy story is emptiness, erasing our names with zeros, ones and police guns
Nobody understands that our story is in the soil
Nobody realizes that our voices roar, hum and weave the rivers and ocean waves
Nobody who is white or gullible of their shadows understands.
There is no industrial solution
There is no socialist revolution
There is no European pagan sun
Einstein's theorems
Marx's das kapital
My grandmother's plants and prayers
are no match for this problem born in 1492...

The revolution is to be human:
Leave the natural world alone
Turn off
Tune in
Go off-line?
Only the wind, the dust, the waters, the moon, the sun, our smiles are wireless
The rest is either a fiction or a faction of our imagination.
We fight for the right to be in our black and brown skins without fear
We fight for the right to live in community with the natural light
We fight for the right to sing our song in any key in any tone in any frequency
so that bees and butterflies are not molested
so that maize and pollen are free to make love with humans and insects
We have arrived
at the shores
of a broken world
beatened men
impaled women
unlucky new borns
who have inherited a war of worlds
payable through an electronic debit plan
You cannot download utopia or useless ancestors
Your laptop will never have enough memory to install the new old world...

Primero de Mayo | May 1 | the international movement

The working class
That international beast of capitalist burden
Used to count the light, the wrinkled skin of stars and cosmos
Now we’re trapped in the industrial smokestack's web of disaster
We used to be Indians, most of us at least.
We donned silk-screened t-shirts with the crocodile trademark over our huipiles
We interspersed the language of money in the crust of our souls,
Banning the sun from the count of human time.

We are in trouble:
Are we workers or are we humans
Are we sons and daughters of the land or is the land dispossessed of the dispossessed
Are we on street-corners waiting for work or are we on the cosmic pilgrimage
to honor Lucy, our first mother, returning the first kiss with the first humanity to be

Dos



Veinte girasoles
Veinte fuerzas
Veinte vientos, polvos, criaturas. aguas, animalitos, hormiguitas, abrazos, veinte maneras de amarte y hacerte el amor
Hoy es el primer día
Nace de mi bravura verde
Con su hocico se traga el dolor, dejando un arcoiris de cicatriz
Después de él nos barre el viento
Nos autogestamos en nuestras casas
Los sueños emergen de nuestro plumaje
La muerte nos arrulla
El venadito vuela
El lunar del conejito cuelga de tus oidos, arêtes astrales
El agua siempre nos bendice ancestros y recien nacidos
Los chiquillos correnm nos aman incondicionalmente, ladran sus corazones
Luego se trepan en la copa del cielo y mis changuitos cantan con las estrellas
Luego la mujer de la tierra, del lodo, de las raíces humanas nos mece entre sus brazos acuáticos
Ella construye una flauta de carrillo que hostiga a los sentidos de los conquistadores.
El ocelote carga los astros de la noche sobre su piel, su ofrenda humana a la naturaleza
que es arrebatada por el águila de la luz.
Luego mi abuelito me recuerda que el aura volará siete veces traspasando el cadaver de los explotadores.

Todas las vida y las luchas empiezan y terminan en el movimiento:
La materia visible e invisible
baila, gira, se tuerce y retuerce en el ombligo del pozo negro,
la cúmbia cósmica del big bang.
Llegando a esta aurora, la tierra exige un ofrenda
Tienes que decidir que parte de tu cuerpo sacrificarás para que la luz no muera.
La lluvia explota con su rabia pura, nos baña con su cristalina voz
De ella brotan nuestros cantos, el éxtasis de estar a tu lado…

Tres

Cipactli
Ehecatl
Calli
Cuetzpalli
Coatl
Miquiztli
Mazatl
Tochtli
Atl
Itzcuintli
Ozomatli
Malinalli
Acatl
Ocelotl
Cuauhtli
Cozcacuauhtli
Ollin
Tecpatl
Quiahuitl
Xochitl
así
es la cuenta
de nuestras derrotas
así
es el tiempo
de nuestras esperanzas
son los días donde nos estremecíamos en las fogatas de la luna
y en los brazos del sol negro.
Todos las noches y los días son sagrados
Hay noches cuando nuestros sacrificios son impuestos
Hay días cuando la explotación cava tumbas en nuestros pechos
Han habido ya más de siete generaciones aguantando, resistiendo
y sacrificándose para parir al nuevo sol…