Cirrus@Austlit

Dedication: para israel & rubén

Epigraphs:
Volver a los diecisiete después de vivir un siglo,
es como descifrar signos sin ser sabio competente,
volver a ser de repente tan frágil como un segundo,
volver a sentir profundo como un niño frente a Dios,
eso es lo que yo siento en este instante profundo. -- Violeta Parra, 'Volver a los diecisiete'

Imagine there's no countries
it isn't hard to do
nothing to kill or die for
no religion too
imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
no need for greed or anger
a brotherhood of man
imagine all the people
sharing all the world... --John Lennon, 'Imagine'

For we were people before we were citizens,
before we were ratepayers,
tenants, customers, employees, parishioners.
How could we understand
white man's gradings, rigid and unquestioned,
your sacred totems of Lord and Lady,
Highness and Holiness, Eminence, Majesty.
We could not understand
your strange cult of uniformity,
this mass obedience to clocks, time-tables. -- Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal, custodian of the land Minjerribah, 'Civilisation'

Epigraph (at the close of the poem):
There go my people.
I am their leader, I have to follow them. -- Mahatma Gandhi