{"id":11891,"date":"2020-02-06T17:35:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T17:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:#clients.elainemichele.com\/SPC2022\/?p=11891"},"modified":"2022-11-11T21:16:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T02:16:20","slug":"creative_expressions_1891","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/clients.elainemichele.com\/SPC2022\/articles\/creative_expressions_1891\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Buzzards<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n

by Melinda Wheeler<\/p>\n

Your mother dreamed
\nyou
\nbefore you
\nwere you;
\nshe dreamed
\nyou while
\nwatching
\nthe buzzards
\nspread their wings
\nand land
\nnear dead
\ncarcasses
\nand garbage;
\nshe dreamed you
\nwhile gliding
\nover the border
\nin the dark.
\nHere,
\non the other
\nside,
\nshe takes you
\nto school
\nevery morning,
\nin her rusty car;
\nyou learn
\nto be
\nan American.
\nYour classroom
\nis a haze of
\nnoise and smells,
\nas the teacher
\nchecks homework
\nher eyes, serious;
\na boy
\nbehind you
\nsnickers.
\nSuddenly a buzzard
\nis trying to take you, trying to
\ntear at you
\nwith its
\ntalons;
\nyou
\nbare your
\nteeth,
\nready to rip
\nand cut.
\nIn the next second,
\nyou are a little boy
\nagain; crying,
\ngetting smaller and smaller,
\nwalking down the hall,
\non your way
\nto the principal\u2019s
\noffice<\/p>\n

Melinda Wheeler is a retired teacher who worked with many Latin American students in her career. This poem is dedicated to themBuzzards<\/p>\n

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Lyrics by Colleen Kattau We drill it we f ill it we spill it and  kill it and we treat the earth like dirt.<\/i><\/p>\n

And in the heat a fire builds another bomb to beat the heat ain\u2019t
\nthat neat, now I\u2019m a nuclear power too just like you. Monkey
\nsee, monkeys don\u2019t do that. As far as I can see, humanity ain\u2019t
\nwhere it\u2019s at when\u2026
\nRoll over, play dead I\u2019m building a powerplant in your
\nflowerbed. I control I said with another warhead. And it might
\nbe getting worse.
\nA woman in the 50s looks out into Nevada skies, struck by the
\nstrange beauty of  a mushroom cloud and this strong woman did not
\nraise a dead child, and raised another
\nNot whole
\nOur own private playground, not an unspoiled spot of ground
\nto be found\u2014our own silent spring. Is there any way to turn it
\nall around. Is there any way to do anything?
\nWhen\u2026
\nTurn it all around<\/p>\n

Colleen is a CNY-based bilingual vocalist and perf ormer<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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