as rising as falling as air moving in sleep silence and calm
her breath a small steady wind believing me to the secret i screamed at and made known
a secret destroyed analyzed dissected becomes broken
signs previously revealed
{secret summertime window-unit air conditioners alleviating hell;
triumphant ferry rides across bodies of water;
and bringing a child into this world;}
cling as loss
as nothing
as gross
as evil perhaps
reveal that which should not be written revealed
to one who had given me life
broken trust with a traveler, a god, a lover
off-colored salt habitually filled damages and
bitter scalpel inspected the works the wounds
corpses rolled in graves
words not written
balloons deflated on all membranes
and now magnificent glory
the secret is whispered in dark as rising as falling as air moving in sleep, silence, and calm
It is my commitment to reflect on the past year in an upcoming post. Things have changed and I owe a lot of it to the work and foundations Grace Lee Boggs has built. This final episode of the interview I did with her in November of 08 reflects on the city of Detroit’s recent history and future.
It is quite common for those of us here (and the world that seems to come here and study us) to say Detroit is the model for deindustrialization, that we are in essence a blueprint for the new economy. The economic pain in the past few years felt by the country and world is something the city of Detroit has been feeling for over twenty years. There is an ounce of truth in this but Grace Lee Boggs takes it further. She breaks it down as she always does but she offers real alternatives and sees things in how it relates to history.
So this is more or less a testing of the blackberry app for wordpress. Pretty well thought out.
Today I went to gibraltar trade center in taylor. A glimpse into a pseudo underground economy with lots of fake gold and neon virgin marys. Looking into selling air fresheners there.
