my name is maria: wordpainter. new jersey is home. this is where i put my things. contact : mariagwrites(at)gmail.comTumblr (3.0; @mariaguzman)http://mariaguzman.tumblr.com/<p><div>bodies spin like globes</div> <div>below 14th street</div> <div>shapeless in the way they probe</div> <div>stopping is no option</div> <div>john dewey-eyed women who reveal ethnicity like cleavage</div> <div>and the ones who occupy men like public parks</div> <div>master-baiting accents;</div> <div>fingering the native watermark</div> <div>arms thrust in front of barricading black</div> <div>uniformed massacre handlers</div> <div>trained to hold the landless back,</div> <div>face in the pavement</div> <div>split faced women</div> <div>crowds of them</div> <div>all true-blue bruised</div> <div>full of suicidal grace</div> <div>bleeding sweat and quiet</div> <div>we can not afford to be loyal</div> <div>did they forget how brown bodies were used</div> <div>this country was not built on fertile grounds</div> <div>they raped us</div> <div>and skinned us</div> <div>to enrich the soil</div> <div>the crowd spills over like indigenous blood</div> <div>a familiar pigment</div> <div>america hemorrhages in zuccotti park</div></p>http://mariaguzman.tumblr.com/post/13566388151http://mariaguzman.tumblr.com/post/13566388151Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:37:00 -0500