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MIEL & the new issue of 111O
MIEL & the new issue of 111O
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“Tonight, the sky is read as woman. It is 3 AM. The sun has not befriended the sky in hours. Regrettably, a red stain (name it: blood, menstruation, the failure of sperm to saturate egg, said again: the failure of woman to invite man into her body, to penetrate one solitary lonely fretful egg: yes, blood) has summoned a woman from the heat of a tongue she could sink her body in. It is 3:00 in the morning. The blood that swelters her stomach is not (like) the sky swelling night.” -- Metta Sama
Nepotized by Racquel Goodison
This has always been a factory town. Back before it was just me and the other forty or so people who stayed this time, it was miners coming to mine the copper. Then it was workers coming to smelt it. Now, if tonight’s news is anything to go by, it’s going to be first responders coming to fight emergencies of their own making.
“The early evening news took me an hour closer to nightfall. The newscaster reported on the same old stories: the war in Iraq: more hidden bombs, more casualties; the 2004 Presidential elections: Kerry and Bush set to debate; the election’s issues: a big increase of new voters in swing states; new Medicare rules have set off a battle on drug choices. It was all like it had been, until I heard her call our name: “the Department of Homeland Security … to buy the entire town of Playas… turn the town into location for anti-terrorism training… ground zero for the training of emergency response personnel.” The news shook me hard. I turned off the TV and sat in the dark for a while.
I tried to imagine the change coming. I thought about what this town used to be before Dodge left. I also thought about the last time something this big promised to happen here.” -- Racquel Goodison
Nepotized by Ivelisse Rodriguez
And I am searching for a new place to live, one I can afford in this city where neighborhoods get investments of public capital as they are taken over by influxes of those with more capital worth; I am searching for any home I can land in this land where I have struggled for more than half my life to scrape together a living and secure a place that I do not have to leave at the command of those who hold the papers on it.
Freedom Papers | Racquel Goodison | HER KIND
