Subject: Collective poetry
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:25:19 -0700 (PDT)

These were words written in sidewalk chalk on the
cement at Port Plaza on Tuesday night [May 31, 2006]. Along with the
wooden structures, they were washed away courtesy of
our tax dollars. I thought that I would share with you
the ones that a comrade and I recorded.

*Torture of prisoners
civilians taken prisoner
minors held at Guantanamo 
people held without charges
for years
civilians murdered by marines
journalists killed
women raped
we don't count those we've killed
(but they will haunt us anyway)
AND our sons
and daughters
mothers fathers
brothers sisters
bravely dead
mutilated, sick
not for freedom
but for oil, money and control of the Middle East
and we have given our rights away
signed over our freedom
to help liars 
with every tank of gas 
every tax dollar
evey time we change the station
because we are tired of hearing bad news
we are complicit as though we have tortured a prisoner
or killed a child
with our own hands
don't go quietly
RESIST.

*at what point do we admit that we don't have just a
few bad apples? we have poisoned the orchard.

*sqids against the war

*cars kill more people than terrorists

*disarmament abroad starts at home

*you can't make fak'n out of riot pigs, but you can
make it outta soy.

*To the police: next time you hit a protestor remember
that this is your home, you're hitting your neighbors,
you're macing your child's friend.

*you must speak out against the unjust deaths