arnoldo garcía: no one dies

 

 

Sup Marcos committed revolutuonary suicide,

revolutuonary reincarnation,

a revolutionary act of self-immolation

so that Galeano would rise alive unwounded,

a spirit made flesh with paliacate smiles,

a zapatista Phoenix taking flight

from the ashes of that pipe-smoking masked brother.

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Si Che viviera, también se llamara Galeano..,

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Marcos stepped down

and Galeano stepped up.

Life trumps death.

Communities trump corporations.

Neozapatismo trumps neoliberalism.

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As always with the zapatistas,

the creativity of life

trumps

the dogmas of death.

Life

reaffirms

life

and no one dies….