* La vaca, "the cow" in Spanish.
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Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely
I will keep Broken things: The big clay Pot
When you thought me poor, my poverty was shaming. When blackness was unwelcome we found it best that I stay home.
As if I’ve swallowed A watermelon And Sidestepping My digestive tract
When they torture your mother plant a tree When they torture your father plant a tree When they torture your brother
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
Knowing you might some day come and how unprepared I’ve always been like Mr. Sloppy in Charles Dickens’
My brothers knew The things you know. I did not scorn learning them; It’s just my mind
Let other leaders Retire To play golf & write Memoirs
His posture From so many years Holding his robe with one hand Is odd. His gait
Be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around
If I was President The first thing I would do is call Mumia Abu—Jamal. No, if I was president
I said to Poetry:"I’m finished with you." Having to almost die before some wierd light comes creeping through
The tree of life has fallen on my small house. I thought it was so much bigger! But it is not. There in the distance I see the m…
Don’t be like those who ask for ev… praise, a blurb, a free ride in my… limousine. They ask for everything… anything in return. Be like those who can see that my…