In 2012, Pedro Reyes, an artist from Mexico City, convinced his government to donate the guns to him so he could turn them into musical instruments. So somewhere there is a tambourine a drum set, a guitar all made out of things that were used to take people’s lives, but now they create a sound that puts life back into people’s bodies, which is to say, a weapon will always be a weapon but we choose how we fight the war and from this I learned that even our most destructive instruments can still create a melody worth dancing to and sometimes isn’t that also called a battle? I wonder how long it
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