the little stories

by Roberto Lavidez

little people of

different class

and different

ideology

busy with their

own lives and

their everyday

problems

undaunted by

what might

have looked

to others as

an ignominious

departure

renouncing

the nostalgia

and the desire

to coincide

to be digested

and absorbed

in a mosaic

that shows

marks of haste

gross carelessness

and universal

feebleness

assimilation

obnoxious

to a free

community

remained fraught

with tensions

and constant

struggle

evidenced a

mentality that

harkened back

to the past and

experienced

sadness

the way the lion

assimilates

the lamb

when he eats

him

assimilation

venturing into

a grandiose

circularity

where no one

can undo

in his lifetime

the results of

centuries of

exploitation

and violence

it continues

to turn toward

that which it

seeks to escape

it continues

to come up

behind itself

a lifelong

discourse of

grievance

each pirouette

is in its twirling

only the mark of

another pirouette

totally other

and yet the same

the process of

lifting up people

the bestowing

of benefits

upon the needy

the weak and

the backward

these are all

reflected from

the perspective

of assimilationists

the benefactors

and writers of

the little people

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