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Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 19, 2024

SATORI my first drink off the menu brought mescal and pepper salt to cracked dry lips a welcome drink at the guru beach club bar ah, good, sings a brown-faced jack kerouac diety in a song sung by a black messenger bird sand seeker suckers at the bar don’t hear jack’s melody i whistle back […]

Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 18, 2024

Maya moon goddess Ixchel guards the entrance to Punta Sur.   Giver of life to humans and nature, she protects women above all, offering refuge on this island of women from pirates who plunder at their own risk. Marauders die. Ixchel lives. Giving birth to purple rainbows, our mighty ancient diety gives us love when […]

Mexican “Office” Politics

May 17, 2024

Surrounded by dancing palm trees, pristine white sandy beach and an aquamarine lagoon bordering the Caribbean Sea, I told the bartender where I was from. “Scranton, Pennsylvania,” I said. The deeply tanned young woman’s eyes immediately lit like burning turquoise gemstones glistening in the afternoon Mexican sun. “No,” I said before she could respond. “Don’t […]

Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 16, 2024

 you have too much, señor we do not have enough we will share with you what we have

Volunteers of America Got to Revolution

May 8, 2024

If you’re appalled by Columbia University students occupying an iconic New York City campus building made famous by ’60s anti-war student protest, patriotic thoughts of the Boston Tea Party must terrify you. Columbia protestors broke a few windows in their continuing demonstrations against the Israeli/American genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Tea Party insurrectionists rallied revolutionaries […]

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