continued eminent domain abuse

eminent domain and manifest destiny / segundo barrio and now the ysleta area / i have not had the words to write about the recent city council decision / heart hurts / hope to write more soon

"EL PASO, Texas (AP) — It looks like an undeveloped dirt lot in a residential neighborhood, so city officials decided to put a long-awaited four-lane road extension through it.

But the square of dirt is a holy site for the Tigua Ysleta del Sur Pueblo tribe and the site of the tribe's original pueblo.

That's not the only problem with the planned road that would cut across other private property to create a direct path from Interstate 10 to a border highway on the city's congested southeast side."

this morning, i was in the mood for a sappho fragment and was pleased indeed:



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#12 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translator, Anne Carson)

ROCÍO DÚRCAL (for the poetas in ept who often requested to hear this song in class while they wrote their poems):


R.D.'s "nadie es como tú" (#4) is one of those songs that takes me right back to childhood as soon as i hear it

i am joaquin film, 1969:

part 1

part 2