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And this poem also speaks to
the strength of the Navajo woman

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from the [INAUDIBLE] area.

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It's called, "A Navajo Woman's
Compassion, and the White Man's

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Response."

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The hand motions to the rising
sun, making a beautiful path

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of old age with sacred
corn pollen which

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sprinkles from between the
thumb and the index finger.

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A rugged face of
an old woman shows

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years of working and living.

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From the tenaciousness
a faint landscape

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now slipping from memory.

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Her voice penetrates
the vast emptiness.

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Earth my Mother.

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Sun carrier my Father.

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We are your children.

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In your womb, Earth
Mother, we felt warm

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and learned about love.

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Beneath your glare,
Sun carrier Father,

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we learned about patience
and perseverance.

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In your encounter may we
discover harmony, and may

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we walk in beauty.

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Her voice brings the
still vastness to life.

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Years later in
the lifeless house

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provided by the
great white Father

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her mind wanders back to Big
Mountain, Black Mesa the land

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she loves so.

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His God, merciless, made tears
run down her grooved cheeks

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like rain water that once
streamed down [? Arroyo. ?]

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Her last quick
glance at the land

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brought images of machines
raping Mother Earth,

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tearing out her
liver, her heart.

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And she felt the pain too,
for she is of the Earth.

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A little child was
born, and a big one too.

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No, not monster slayer.

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A child born of water.

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Little boy, big boy.

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Atomic brothers to destroy
Sun Carrier Father.

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Earth Mother is not unfaithful.

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Earth Mother you
are not unfaithful.

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Modern technology
rapes, begets bastards.

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America lives where
justice lives.

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Where justice protect both the
bad, and at times the good.

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We are blessed children today.

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We live.

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Yes, even the Prodigal
Son will feast.

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Rape, bastard, twins,
monsters, whore, death.

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The Great Wall of China
trembles for past glories.

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Concrete and steel
buildings shatter

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for strength of the day.

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A shuttle explodes with
priceless knowledge

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for security of the future.

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Where are the human
beings, possessors

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of Earth, caretakers of Earth.

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Look there his head, there her
finger, and there their eyes.

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I cannot see where is the brain.

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It just splattered
beneath your step.

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Blood oozes from cracked
ground, and refuses to dry.

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Clouds of Puritan dust
prevent Sun Carrier Father

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from claiming what is his.

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Death rains.

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Satan, or is it Reagan?

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Where is Uncle Sam?

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Uncle who?

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Oh, Uncle Sam.

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He is socializing Guatemala.

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Sipping a drink in Lebanon.

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The spinning world, gravity.

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Somewhere in Washington,
perhaps in the Plaza people

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are laughing, smiling.

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Look, listen.

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Yeah, I was born in the USA.

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Born free, Statue of Liberty.

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Donate to her Majesty's makeup.

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You know what she stands for?

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No.

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No.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Democracy and freedom I bet?

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No.

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Inequity, imperial
capitalism, Weni, widi, wiki.

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Ultimate death, destruction,
total oblivion, black hole.

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America is still giving
birth to maternity dreams

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of the founding fathers.

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Lifeless and feelingless
children raping Mother Earth.

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Incest rules.

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Atomic brothers,
nuclear sisters,

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beauty in brotherly pollution.

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Long life, ancestorly cancer.

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Still her waving voice meets
the in rolling darkness.

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Yellow, sacred cornmeal
prepares the way.

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The Navajo woman from
Big Mountain, her voice

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sets with the sun.

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Earth my dear Mother,
we come from you.

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We return to you.

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