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For the Solstice: Speaking to the Sun

Speaking to the sun on the solstice

The Civil War isn’t over yet. The Crusades begun a thousand years ago have not been won, and when I read about another Drone, another soldier’s suicide, another stone thrown at a women’s head, another prison being built to rid the streets of anyone who might be one of them, or smoked a joint, or didn’t have his papers in his pocket, I look up at you, Dear Sun and want to cry and not feel shame, and wish that I knew innoce...