[Thespiritexpress] After Thanksgiving

[Susan]

Aah…oh yes…there we are…thank you.
Susan

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> On Nov 26, 2022, at 8:26 AM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
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>> 
>> 
>> My Ancestry DNA results came in.
>> Just as I suspected, my great great grandfather
>> was a monarch butterfly.
>> 
>> Much of who I am is still wriggling under a stone.
>> I am part larva, but part hummingbird too.
>> 
>> There is dinosaur tar in my bone marrow.
>> 
>> My golden hair sprang out of a meadow in Palestine.
>> 
>> Genghis Khan is my fourth cousin,
>> but I didn’t get his dimples.
>> 
>> My loins are loaded with banyan seeds from Sri Lanka,
>> but I descended from Ravanna, not Ram.
>> 
>> My uncle is a mastodon.
>> 
>> There are traces of white people in my saliva.
>> 
>> 3.7 billion years ago I swirled in golden dust,
>> dreaming of a planet overgrown with lingams and yonis.
>> 
>> More recently, say 60,000 B.C.
>> I walked on hairy paws across a land bridge
>> joining Sweden to Botswana.
>> 
>> I am the bastard of the sun and moon.
>> 
>> I can no longer hide my heritage of raindrops and cougar scat.
>> 
>> I am made of your grandmother’s tears.
>> 
>> You conquered rival tribesmen of your own color,
>> chained them together, marched them naked to the coast,
>> and sold them to colonials from Savannah.
>> 
>> I was that brother you sold, I was the slave trader,
>> I was the chain.
>> 
>> Admit it, you have wings, vast and golden,
>> like mine, like mine.
>> 
>> You have sweat, black and salty,
>> like mine, like mine.
>> 
>> You have secrets silently singing in your blood,
>> like mine, like mine.
>> 
>> Don’t pretend that earth is not one family.
>> Don’t pretend we never hung from the same branch.
>> Don’t pretend we don’t ripen on each other’s breath.
>> Don’t pretend we didn’t come here to forgive.
>> 
>> Alfred K. LaMotte
>> 
>> 
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