Xcp:  Streetnotes: Fall  2004
Streetnotes Fall 2004 xcp

 
 
María Isabel Pazos
 

Streetnotes in B.A.
(Argentina´s clangor 2001/2002)

 
 
 
 
 

People burst
Into the streets
Clanging
Spanking
Banging
Pans

 

Sparkling carlights glow
Claxons sound
Yet disillusion
Is a void

 

People burst out
In the streets
“All of you go home
Right now”

 

People burst out
At the banks
“Give back our owns
And leave at once”

 

People burst
Into the parks
For new jobs

 

To make a few cents
Even children pick up paper
In the trash

 

At dinner time
People burst
In tears of wine

 

People burst out
For food and warmth
As harsh poverty clamps down

 

People´s hearts burst up
Like bombs

 

People´s cries burst
In the air
Like children´s callings
In the dark

 

There´s a message
In the streets

 

Find your brothers
Keep together
Mind your neighbour
And hold hands

 

Don´t you loose faith:
Keep together
Morning
surely will come

 

 
 


  (c)María Isabel Pazos 2004


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