Sidewalk Poem: Resist

[These were words written in sidewalk chalk on the

cement at the Port Plaza on the night of May 31, 2006.]

Torture of prisoners

civilians taken prisoner

minors held at Guantanamo

people held without charges

for years

civilians murdered by marines

journalists killed

women raped

we don't count those we've killed

(but they will haunt us anyway)

AND our sons

and daughters

mothers fathers

brothers sisters

bravely dead

mutilated, sick

not for freedom

but for oil, money and control of the Middle East

and we have given our rights away

signed over our freedom

to help liars

with every tank of gas

every tax dollar

every time we change the station

because we are tired of hearing bad news

we are complicit as though we have tortured a prisoner

or killed a child

with our own hands

don't go quietly

RESIST.