I am Joaquin

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I AM JOAQUIN

By Rodolfo Corky González

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I am Joaquin,
Lost in a world of confusion,
Caught up in a whirl of a
gringo society,
Confused by the rules,
Scorned by attitudes,
Suppressed by manipulations,
And destroyed by modern society.
My fathers
have lost the economic battle
and won
the struggle of cultural survival.
And now!
I must choose
[COLOR=#660000]Between[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the paradox of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Victory of the spirit,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]despite physical hunger[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Or[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to exist in the grasp[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of American social neurosis,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]sterilization of the soul[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and a full stomach.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Yes,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have come a long way to nowhere,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Unwillingly dragged by that[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]monstrous, technical[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]industrial giant called[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Progress[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and Anglo success…[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I look at myself.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I watch my brothers.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I shed tears of sorrow.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I sow seeds of hate.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I withdraw to the safety within the[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Circle of life . . .[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]MY OWN PEOPLE[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Cuauhtemoc,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Proud and Noble[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Leader of men,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]King of an empire,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]civilized beyond the dreams[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of the Gachupin Cortez,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Who also is the blood,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the image of myself.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the Maya Prince.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Netzahualcoyotl,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Great leader of the Chichimecas.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the sword and flame of Cortez[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the despot.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]And[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the Eagle and Serpent of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the Aztec civilization.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I owned the land as far as the eye[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]could see under the crown of Spain,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and I toiled on my earth and gave my Indian sweat and blood[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]for the Spanish master,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Who ruled with tyranny over man and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]beast and all that he could trample[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]But . . .[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]THE GROUND WAS MINE.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I was both tyrant and slave.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]As Christian church took its place[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in God's good name,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to take and use my Virgin strength and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Trusting faith,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The priests[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]both good and bad,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]took[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]But[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]gave a lasting truth that[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Spaniard,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Indian,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Mestizo[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Were all God's children[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]And[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]from these words grew men[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]who prayed and fought[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]for[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]their own worth as human beings,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]for[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]that[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]GOLDEN MOMENT[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]FREEDOM.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I was part in blood and spirit[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of that[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]courageous village priest[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Hidalgo[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the year eighteen hundred and ten[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]who rang the bell of independence[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and gave out that lasting cry:[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]"El Grito de Dolores, Que mueran[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]los Gachupines y que viva[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]la Virgin de Guadalupe"[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I sentenced him who was me.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I excommunicated him my blood.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I drove him from the Pulpit to lead a bloody revolution for him and me I killed him.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]His head, which is mine and all of those who have conic this way,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I placed on that fortress wall to wall for Independence.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Morelos! [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Matamoros! [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Guerrero![/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]All Compañeros in the act,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]STOOD AGAINST THAT WALL OF INFAMY[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to feel the hot gouge of lead which my hands made.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I died with them . . .[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I lived with them[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I lived to see our country free.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Free from Spanish rule in eighteen -hundred- twenty-one.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Mexico was Free[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The crown was gone but[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]all his parasites remained[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and ruled and taught[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]with gun and flame and mystic power.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I worked,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I sweated,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I bled,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I prayed[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]waited silently for life to again commence.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I fought and died for[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Don Benito Juarez[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Guardian of the Constitution.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I was him on clusty roads on barren land[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]as he protected his archives as Moses did his sacraments.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]He held his Mexico[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in his hand[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]on[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the most desolate[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and remote ground[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]which was his country[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]And this Giant[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Little Zapotec[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]gave[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]not one palm's breadth[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of his country's land to[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Kings or Monarchs or Presidents[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of foreign powers.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Joaquin. I rode with Pancho Villa, crude and warm. A tornado at full strength, nourished and inspired[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]by the passion and the fire of all his earth, people. I am Emillano Zapata.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]"This Land[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]This Earth[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Is[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]OURS"[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Villages[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Mountains[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Streams[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]belong to Zapatistas.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Our life[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Or yours[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]is the only trade for soft brown earth[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and maiz.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]All of which is our reward,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]A creed that formed a constitution for all who dare live free![/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]"This land is ours . . . Father, I give it back to you.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Mexico must be free . . .'[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I ride with Revolutionists[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]against myself.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Rural[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Course and brutal,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the mountain Indian, superior over all.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The thundering hoof beats are my horses.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The chattering of machine guns'[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]are death to all of me:[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Yaqui[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Tarahumara[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Chamula[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Zapotec[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Mestizo[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Español[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have been the Bloody Revolution,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Victor,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Vanquished,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have killed[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and been killed.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am despots Diaz[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and Huerta[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and the apostle of democracy[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Francisco Madero.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the black shawled[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]faithful women[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]who die with me[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]or live depending on the time and place.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]faithful,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]humble,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Juan Diego,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the Virgen de Guadalupe,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Tonatzin, Aztec Goddess too.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I rode the mountains of San Joaquin. I rode as far East and North as the Rocky Mountains[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]all men feared the guns of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Joaquin Murrietta.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I killed those men who dared[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to steal my mine,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]who raped and Killed[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]my Love[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]my Wife[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Then[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I Killed to stay alive.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I was Alfego. Baca,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]living my nine lives fully.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I was the Espinoza brothers[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of the Valle de San Luis.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]All,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]were added to the number of heads[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]that[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the name of civilization[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]were placed on the wall of independence.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Heads of brave men[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]who died for cause or principle.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Good or Bad.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Hidalgo! Zapata![/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Murrieta! Espinoza![/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]are but a few. They dared to face The force of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]tyranny of men who rule[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]By farce and hypocrisy[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I stand here looking back, and now I see the present[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and still[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I arn the campesino[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the fat political coyote[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I, of the same name,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Joaquin.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]In a country that has wiped out AI my history, stiffled all my pride.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]In a country that has placed a different weight of indignity upon my age old[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]burdened back.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Inferiority[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]is the new load . . .[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Indian has endured and still[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]emerged the winner,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Mestizo must yet overcome,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]And the Gachupin will just ignore.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I look at myself[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and see part of me[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]who rejects my father and my mother[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and dissolves into the melting pot[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to disappear in shame.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I sometimes[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]sell my brother out[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and reclaim him[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]for my own when society, gives me[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]token leadership[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in society's own name.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Joaquin, who bleeds in many ways. The altars of Moctezuma[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I stained a bloody red.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My back of Indian Slavery[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]was stripped crimson from the whips of masters who would lose their blood so pure when[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Revolution made them pay Standing against the walls of Retribution,[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Blood . . .[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Has flowed from[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]me on every battlefield[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]between Campesino, Hacendado Slave and Master and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Revolution.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I jumped from the tower of Chapultepec into the sea of fame;[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My country's flag my burial shroud;[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]With Los Niños, whose pride and courage[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]could not surrender with indignity their country's flag . . . in their land.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]To strangers[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Now[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I bleed in some smelly cell[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]from club.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]or gun.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]or tyranny.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I bleed as the vicious gloves of hunger[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]cut my face and eyes,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]as I fight my way from stinking Barrios[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to the glamour of the Ring[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and lights of fame[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]or mutilated sorrow.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My blood runs pure on the ice caked[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]hills of the Alaskan Isles,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]on the corpse strewn beach of Normandy,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the foreign land of Korea[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and now[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Viet Nam.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Here I stand[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]before the Court of justice Guilty for all the glory of my Raza to be sentenced to despair.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Here I stand Poor in money Arrogant with pride[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Bold with Machismo[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Rich in courage and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Wealthy in spirit and faith[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My knees are caked with mud. My hands calloused from the hoe.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have made the Anglo rich yet[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Equality is but a word, the Treaty of Hidalgo has been broken[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and is but another treacherous promise.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My land is lost[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and stolen,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My culture has been raped,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]lengthen[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the line at he welfare door and fill the jails with crime.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]These then are the rewards this society has[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]For sons of Chiefs[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and Kings and bloody Revolutionists.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Who gave a foreign people all their skills and ingenuity[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to pave the way with Brains and Blood[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]for[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]those hordes of Gold starved[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Strangers[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Who changed our language and plagiarized our deeds[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]as feats of valor of their own. They frowned upon our way of life[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and took what they could use.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Our Art[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Our Literature[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Our music, they ignored so they left the real things of value and grabbed at their own destruction by their[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Greed and Avarice[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]They overlooked that cleansing fountain of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]nature and brotherhood[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Which is Joaquin.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The art of our great señors[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Diego Rivera[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Siqueiros[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Orozco is but[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]another act of revolution for the Salvation of mankind. Mariachi music, the heart and soul of the people of the earth, the life of child, and the happiness of love[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The Corridos tell the tales of life and death, of tradition, Legends old and new, of Joy of passion and sorrow of the people: who I am.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am in the eyes of woman, sheltered beneath[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]her shawl of black, deep and sorrowful eyes,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]That bear the pain of sons long buried or dying,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Dead[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]on the battlefield or on the barbwire of social strife.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Her rosary she prays and fingers[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]endlessly like the family working down a row of beets to turn around and work and work There is no end. Her eyes a mirror of all the warmth and all the love for me, And I am her And she is me. We face life together in sorrow. anger, joy faith and wishful thoughts.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I shed tears of anguish as I see my children disappear behind the shroud of mediocrity never to look back to remember me. I am Joaquin.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I must fight And win this struggle for my sons, and they must know from me Who I am. Part of the blood that runs deep in me Could not be vanquished by the Moors I defeated them after five hundred years, and I endured. The part of blood that is mine has labored endlessly five-hundred years under the heel of lustful Europeans[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am still here![/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have endured in the rugged mountains[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of our country[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have survived the toils and slavery,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]of the fields.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I have existed[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the barrios of the city,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the suburbs of bigotry,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the mines of social snobbery,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the prisons of dejection,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the muck of exploitation[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]in the fierce heat of racial hatred.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]And now the trumpet sounds,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The music of the people stirs the[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Revolution,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Like a sleeping giant it slowly rears its head[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]to the sound of[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Tramping feet[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Clamouring voices[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Marlachi strains[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Fiery tequila explosions[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The smell of chile verde and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Soft brown eyes of expectation for a[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]better life[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]And in all the fertile farm lands,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the barren plains,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]the mountain villages,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]smoke smeared cities[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]We start to MOVE.[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]La Raza![/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Mexicano! [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Español! [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Latino! [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Hispano! [/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Chicano![/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]or whatever I call myself,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I look the same[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I feel the same[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I cry[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]and[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]Sing the same[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am the masses of people and I refuse to be absorbed.[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Joaquin,[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]The odds are great but my spirit is strong[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My faith unbreakable[/COLOR]
[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]My blood is pure[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I am Aztec Prince and Christian Christ[/COLOR]

[FONT=Times New Roman][COLOR=#660000]I SHALL ENDURE![/COLOR]
[COLOR=#660000][FONT=Times New Roman]I WILL ENDURE![/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman]


[COLOR=#660000][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6M6qOG2O-o&feature=related[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman]
[COLOR=#660000][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sCae3qYm9Y&feature=related[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman]

[COLOR=#660000][FONT=Times New Roman]By Rodolfo Corky González

[/FONT][/COLOR][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=4][COLOR=Olive][FONT=arial,helvetica][B]¡STATUS NOSTRI... MULTUM NOSTRA TERRA![/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/font][/font][/font][/font][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]

 

*"En lo que a literatura se refiere, hay que señalar la publicación en 1967 de un poema de Rodolfo "Corky" González titulado "I am Joaquín" en donde, junto con poner de manifiesto temas y preocupaciones propias de la comunidad méxico-americana, se denuncia la falta de oportunidades en la educación, la carencia de participación política y todos los problemas relacionados con la diversidad racial y étnica. Tomás Ybarra-Frausto en su artículo "The Chicano Movement and the Emergence of a Chicano Poetic Consciousness", dice del poema de González "is symbolic of the modern Chicano who must struggle against the physical and psychic mutilations of a dominant culture"(92)".

*Aparte tomado del siguiente enlace en internet:
http://mingaonline.uach.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0071-17131997000100011&lng=es&nrm=iso

Desde el anterior enlace se puede tener una visión amplia en lo que toca al tema del poema de Rodolfo Corky González que en este maravilloso aporte nos haz traído Arturo...emociona escucharlo en el enlace de youtube, emociona sentir la incormidad que hizo y hace de las culturas una revelación que se conoce y se lleva en paliativos de inconformismos inclu-excluyentes.

Un poema que hace de un tema amplio la voz al reconocimiento de una cultura que, pese a estar dentro se forja propia y se defiende.

GRACIAS por llevar nuestra mirada a lo que genera visión e inquietar este foro con un poema inmortal.

Recibe un fuerte abrazo desde mi espacio.

 

Tutti! :::hug:::

Joaquin Murrieta no solo es un Poema! :::blush:::

Es el recuerdo de un Guerrillero, cuyo sentir lo toma la masa del pueblo latinoamericano como propio...

Su momento historico data de 1850-52, poco despues de que Mexico fuera cercenado (1847).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqZxPxFt0MU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUYXLVGNZUU&feature=related

Es la RESISTENCIA del Pueblo MExicano, LAtinoamericano, a perecer...!

-Tutti, Hermosa Tutti...!- :::hug:::

 

Por supuesto Arturo, Joaquin Murrieta no es un poema, fue un personaje que recaló en la historia, no sólo de México (donde por obvias razones se tiene más conocimiento) sino en su lucha que involucraba el respeto como base a cualquier ser humano (si tomé la parte literaria no fue con desconocimiento del personaje que lo inspiró y del cual bien vale la pena documentarse).
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquín_Murieta

Arturo, "Combatiente".

 

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