he read a poem from Benjamin Alire Saenzs
Dark and Perfect Angels Contemplating
Roads
Americans take roads for granted
they forget that an earlier generation
realised that roads and highways were critical that building them was important to the life
of the Nation to maintain it they built a utilitarian interstate as ancient
cultures erected marvelous edifices sacred monuments utilitarian isnt to say that our roads arent sacred they tortured the earth graded it they drilled
tunnels through stone mountains and dove under wide rivers they bound the Nation together connecting the fourseasoned
north to the hot south the historic east to new west and beaded our small villages
and burgs sleepy country townships to the fast skyscrapered urban cities
they made the roads of crushed mountains lime and water and black ribbons of tarmac
for us
“ ‘How come we let this
country/Beat us senseless? Everywhere, we’re falling./ Knocked down as we walk.
But it isn’t true/That we’re lost, that we’ve been stopped dead/In our tracks.’
She brushes back her hair that often/Hides her face. ‘In America roads mean
much, roads/Connect everything, everyone, black roads, hard,/The veins of a nation.
Roads, they weren’t made/For us. Nor we for them. And my road,/I’ll pound and
pound, and pave it as I walk.’ ”
a caravan walks north to the
promise of America
“Give me your tired, your poor,/Your
huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/The wretched refuse to your teeming
shore./Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/I lift my lamp beside
the golden door!”
portion of a poem by Emma Lazarus The New Colossus
if The Statue of Liberty is not
true if it is FAKE
it should be razed
1234, Thursday,
1 11. 18
Stones Paint It Black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4irXQhgMqg
