TWO POEMS FOR THE OCCUPY REVOLUTION

TWO POEMS FOR THE OCCUPY REVOLUTION

1.      OPEN UP THE STREETS

Open up the streets

Let them be

For pedestrians again

Protestors with tall signs

Whose yelling can be heard

From one block to the next

Open up the streets

Let the people

March

Dance

Sing

Let the people’s voices

And footsteps be heard

All across the cities

And suburbs of America

Wherever White people and

African Americans, Latinos, Asians,

American Indians, wherever friends

From anywhere across the globe

Convene

The streets are the plains

And they are open to everybody 

The streets are the great table

Across which we lay out

The feast of our hopes and

Our anticipation

I say, Come

March with us

Come, eat with us

Come, let us create

A new America together 

Open up the streets!

2.      GUESS WHAT, AMERICA?

Everywhere is home 

The fountains

Are open to everybody

And so are the parks 

No exclusions anywhere –

How’s that for a revolution?

-          by Arya F. Jenkins