* La vaca, "the cow" in Spanish.
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When you thought me poor, my poverty was shaming. When blackness was unwelcome we found it best that I stay home.
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
My brothers knew The things you know. I did not scorn learning them; It’s just my mind
With your unknown to me Odd magic You came To me:
The old men used to sing And lifted a brother Carefully Out the door I used to think they
I said to Poetry:"I’m finished with you." Having to almost die before some wierd light comes creeping through
When you see water in a stream you say: oh, this is stream water; When you see water in the river you say: oh, this is water
If my sorrow were deeper I’d be, along with you, under the ocean’s floor; but today I learn that the oil that pools beneath the ocean floor
You confide in me that you are lonely,
When the people have won a victory whether small or large do you ever wonder
I will keep Broken things: The big clay Pot
Don’t be like those who ask for ev… praise, a blurb, a free ride in my… limousine. They ask for everything… anything in return. Be like those who can see that my…
The tree of life has fallen on my small house. I thought it was so much bigger! But it is not. There in the distance I see the m…
Before I leave the stage I will sing the only song I was meant truly to sing. It is the song of I AM.
Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely