One Acre

If I wanted food more than drugs

I couldn’t get it

These oranges are too orange

These bananas stay green

A farmer could plant it

A student could study it

A peasant could dig it up

but I could not eat it

right here

all the way here

all the way over here

but I could

smoke it

use it for fuel

I could get all the way across town

says Barrancabermeja

says my thyroid

says my liver

says these tumors

that I feed every day

on my way to work in the most expensive means

the bluest Xintang jeans

killing my kids

to kill your kids

right there

all the way there

all the way over there

subsidize my potato chips

I think

it’s the healthiest thing

I can find

in the supermarket

red peppers make my neck itch

green apples dry my throat

the only way you could

change yourself

is if you left it

this it

this all over it

if

you didn’t give a tit

you refused to birth it

you stopped

all of mankind

for humankind

then pressed rewind

then maybe

you could find

down in the well

you could see there was no bottom

because the bottom

always circulates to the top

somehow

never ravaged

just the source

the beginning

and in the beginning

when there was no beginning

it was always

the end