MAY DAY, 2017
Marcha para los inmigrantes en Yakima, Primer de mayo, 2017. Immigration March in Yakima, May Day, 2017 con mensaje de Mathew Tomaskin, del tribu Yakama. Yakama Mathew Tomaskin's speech before the march is here in its entirety. Movie by Jim Bodeen
NOTAS ANTES DE LA MARCHA
NOTAS DESPÚES DE LA MARCHA
NOTAS EN MI CUADERNO
NOTAS CANTANDO EN MI CUARTO
NOTAS CAMINANDO CON MI PERRO
NOTAS SOBRE MI CARTA AL SEÑOR,
Notes, too, to the surrounding
music
Notes to the Bishop.
I don't know too many, but I
know a few.
Notes on my questions before the
march.
Running water for everyone the
mayor says,
and the woman walking with me
laughs,
Show me the faucets.
First question:
Who wrote the song, Precious
Lord?
Hint, hint, it wasn't Elvis. And
this one,
Can more people sing Las Casas
de Cartón
than can sing, Love Me Do?
More notes on the dangers of the
poetic line.
Matt Tomaskin said,
We didn't cross that line,
that line crossed us.
Scan that river.
The priest says, No tengan
miedo, no tengan miedo.
la iglesia los acompaña. And I
have that one on film.
You can take it to the bank.
We're here, he says,
para apollar los inmigrantes.
My
own notes
from the church bulletin on
Sunday, quote the pastor saying,
"Welcome the stranger. The
Bible is clear on this." Bien chido, pastora.
My response, also in notes, ask,
If you don't welcome the
stranger
how can you sit next to your
wife?
El pueblo esta presente. And
that's true, too.
el pueblo unido
jamas sera vencido
Empirical facts on that one,
still aren't in.
The pastor talked about Jesus
being a refugee as a child.
I was sitting in the pew next to
a young man
who, like Jesus, had also been a
refugee,
crossing, as North American
Christians like to say,
as an illegal. I think pastor
was talking about Baby Jesus, too.
I happen to know that my young
friend,
on one of the four times he
crossed, it was night,
he was in diapers, and the
helicopter swooped down
with its lights on and got him
and his mom.
Like I said to him after church,
if you want to know if Jesus was
afraid
add those chopper blades and the
big lights coming out of the sky.
No tengan miedo, no tengan
miedo.
This is the line that crossed
us,
the line we sing about in our
song.
Escuelas internados.
These notes from the earth.
Notas desde la tierra.
Somos/as desde la tierra.
Notas en movimiento.
Notes on the move.
I don't think there are
shortcuts for any of us.
Those men in ties on tv calling
for us go back get back in line.
There's a line makes me laugh.
No lloremos. No lloremos.
No hay atajos. No hay.
These notes from the long song
walking.
Some of these be mine.
We are so many. We bring so
much. We are so, so beautiful.
We're bringing the tortillas?
We're bringing the love.
Jim Bodeen
1 May 2007--16 de mayo 2017
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