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Gwen
the dream began in a laboratory
as if haunted by the dark eugenics past
of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor,
shadows surrounded the buildings
where the records of everyone in the country
were stored on silent supercomputers
the plasma that simulated the D-layer of silence
as if a writer worked on a terrible psychological battleground
for which the enemy held the battleplan...
In the dream I was walking with Norbert Wiener in Cambridge
Chinese artist Mu Xin. In prison in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution.
Obata Chiura's transcendent paintings of the California hills
The spirit of John Muir walks with us in
the meadows, forests, valleys and mountains
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Cassie
a story where one of the heroes
when Roberto Clemente died.
It was New Year's Eve.
He was personally taking food and supplies to Nicaragua
the death of Britain's Princess Diana
walking through the landmine
fields in Angola
forever a part of our lives
Jimi Hendrix and Mama Cass died in London.
British musician John Lennon. Murdered in New York City.
Remember Archbishop Oscar Romero
the stark media graphic of red and blue states
is not the true story of our lives
The skies in which at night we see the stars
recorded in computer databases
without our knowledge
Who among us believes that scientists have the right
to experiment on people without their consent?
And in the morning when I awoke, all around the world, in every nation,
the bells in the towns and the cities were ringing for freedom and peace
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