1The Neighbors



Like stripped insects, Uncultivated

Like dirty-water from the drains

Such can be neighbors?and are

In the Anglo-Saxon neighborhoods

Waspwasted-neighbors of Roseville,

Minnesota, a city among cities!...

2The City

But it is much the same elsewhere

In neighborhoods: in cities, here, there:

Narrow allies, main buildings

Unending gutters and blank and

Knob-less doors: like people

Oil and grease, hand prints everywhere

Even a faint and cavernous murmur

(people going, but going nowhere)

Fences and chicken-wire?

Waspwasted-neighbors made

Out of paper, made for the purpose

Of resting upon the shoulders of others

3The Valley

The Valley, the Valley, where should I go

To the mountains in the Andes?

I think so?

Floorless arches

People with bronze, brown skin?

Balanced by free gravity

In the high mountains

Its gold and purple skies

A breeze from the lake nearby

Nature tries to make:

Earth, water and sky?

And the Mantaro Valley as one?

A labyrinth of grass

Passageways, creeks, all about

The rocker arms of the world!...

(that is what it's about)

#874 9/27/05

The Commentary: by the Author: once upon a time there was what now is called the old breed, not many left, a few. This breed is seldom seen, or identified in the United States today. And if you'd? go to a few South American countries, they'd know exactly what you are talking about. Not the young generation today sad to say. Yet there are some left, the old breed, even a few of the old breed in the new breed. What exactly is this breed?--: let me explain (if I can). In Peru, most of the folks would say: Americans don't lie (and we know this is not true anymore, right?) And they would say: Americans always do the right thing (this again is not so true, Right?). And they'd say: don't lie to an American because they will not trust you anymore (well, this is old and out of date, data: is what most young Americans would say. And even say: how naive can they be.). But that is how it used to be. It used to be, a man's word was his oath, he'd die by it, it was his values. And an American had a hard time violating his values. This is what Peru, and many of the South American countries hold on to, until they come here, and get confused: only to find out, it was all bullshit.

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