"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it." ~Anais Nin
from Los Angeles, 1980 by Paula Gunn Allen
The death people do not know
what they create, or how they hide
from the consequences of their dreams.
Wanting the good they slide
into an unforgiving destiny.
Alfalfa sprout, sesame seed,
no meat, no cigarettes: what will change
the inexorable dying we are facing?
No rally, no headline, no designer jean
can do more than hasten it.