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Poetry
Thousands of Feet Below You
Thousands of feet
Below you
There is a small
Boy
Running from
Your bombs.
If he were
To show up
At your
mother's
House
On a green
Sea island
Off the coast
Of Georgia
He'd be invited in
For dinner.
Now, driven,
You have shattered
His bones.
He lies steaming
In the desert
In fifty or sixty
Or maybe one hundred
Oily,
slimy
Bits
If you survive
& return
To your
island
Home
& your
mother's
Gracious
Table
Where the cup
Of
lovingkindness
Overflows
The
brim
(&
From which
No one
In memory
Was
ever
Turned)
Gather yourself.
Set a place
For him.
--Alice WalkerExcerpted from ABSOLUTE TRUST IN THE GOODNESS OF THE EARTH by Alice Walker. Copyright (c) 2003 by Alice Walker. Published by arrangement with The Random House Ballantine Trade Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Butterfly saved Luna: After living on Luna for two years, Julia Butterfly helped save the tree she loves.
The Battle of Seattle shut down--for now--WTO plans.
Millennium Madness: just as Leary and what's-his-name predicted
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Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF--by the Global Exchange staff
"The Day I Met George W. Bush," a memoir by John Searcy--the Bush boys cruise 70s Odessa.
"Hole in Headwaters" gets reprieve--Judge grants injunction, sparing ancient redwoods--a report from North Coast Earth First!
Pre-Convention media coverage: distorts Democracy Movement's agenda, whitewashes paramilitary violence
Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the Elian Gonzalez saga: "Shipwreck on dry land"
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A commentary by Dylan Humphrey: on academic freedom and democracy
"Bringing home the roadkill should not be a crime," a commentary by Lynn Harrington
Americans seem to prefer the "security" of fascism over democracy, writes Carol Wolman
Termination of Treaties: A Presidential Decree is not enough
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Inaugural poetry section: "The Undertaker," by Carlos Knoop
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Prayer for these signs of the times: a Rasta poem
"jersey st": a poem by michael platt
"Mutability," by William Wordsworth
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