{"id":9557,"date":"2019-10-19T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/?p=9557"},"modified":"2019-10-19T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:56:09","slug":"poem-for-culiacan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/poem-for-culiacan.html","title":{"rendered":"Poem for Culiac\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9558\" style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9558   \" title=\"I wrote the following poem on October 19, 2019. Photo\/Mark Vallen\" src=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/vallen_culiacan_poem.jpg\" alt=\"I wrote the following poem on October 19, 2019. Photo\/Mark Vallen\" width=\"583\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/vallen_culiacan_poem.jpg 900w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/vallen_culiacan_poem-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/vallen_culiacan_poem-400x279.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I wrote &quot;Poem for Culiac\u00e1n&quot; on October 19, 2019. Photo\/Mark Vallen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Set afire &amp; ravaged by drug lords<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2019-10-17\/chaos-in-mexico-as-el-chapos-son-a-leader-of-the-sinaloa-cartel-is-reportedly-captured\" target=\"_blank\"> Culiac\u00e1n<\/a>, the eden with three rivers<br \/>\nburns through the night<br \/>\nthe Guadalupe watches from<br \/>\nLa Lomita, her sanctuary church<br \/>\nit has the best view of the dying city<\/p>\n<p>The same giant white SUVs<br \/>\nblue skies, cactus, palm trees<br \/>\nthe same brown-skinned people<br \/>\nsinners, saints, criminals, victims<br \/>\nLos Angeles or Culiac\u00e1n<br \/>\nwhat&#8217;s the difference?<\/p>\n<p>The rivers Humaya, Tamazula &amp; Culiac\u00e1n<br \/>\nhear the screams &amp; gunfire, their bridges<br \/>\nare choked with burning cars &amp; trucks<br \/>\nthey smell smokeless powder &amp; fear<br \/>\ntheir waters reflect armed assassins<\/p>\n<p>Cartel hitmen butcher &amp; dismember<br \/>\ntheir way through the crimson graveyard<br \/>\nknown as Mexico, where El Presidente<br \/>\ncowers &amp; mewls\u2014&#8221;we do not want war&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And in the United States<br \/>\nwhere some wail over<br \/>\nthe unguarded border of Syria<br \/>\nthe red-hot conflagration of Mexico ablaze<br \/>\nfails to scorch American hearts &amp; minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set afire &amp; ravaged by drug lords Culiac\u00e1n, the eden with three rivers burns through the night the Guadalupe watches from La Lomita, her sanctuary church it has the best view of the dying city The same giant white SUVs blue skies, cactus, palm trees the same brown-skinned people sinners, saints, criminals, victims Los Angeles or Culiac\u00e1n what&#8217;s the difference?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ayotzinapa-mexico","category-dia-de-los-muertos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art-for-a-change.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}