by ‘bro. zayid’
In this stadium of footlaunched spotted balls
of what should be
promising soccer stars…
In this stadium reeking with the stench of terror
and
the numbing sounds of death…
In this stadium with horror riddled circling winds
and repelled the doves and the sparrows…
In this stadium echoing with the insane
insistent martial march
of hardhoofed soldiers primed for fleshopening madness…
In this stadium of gagged people’s poems
of throat slashed people’s songs
their throatcut bloodmuffled melodies
missing their companion audience’s eyes
repelling the wings
and the whistles of the doves and the sparrows
with their blood splattered on our
faces and our shirts…
In this stadium
haunted with the harrowed harmonies
of a
guitar played with krushed fingers and a bayoneted heart…
In this stadium of
paraded corpses and paralyzed eyes
of long lines of skulls freshly popped open
in the back by gunfire…
In this stadium
where democracy was lynched
by imperialism’s sanctioned and uniformed hyenas
and then buried in an anonymous
heap…
There were no heroes here…
Only the massacred and martyrs…
Their bleeding breathless torsos had just
watered the crying grass
and their stars had just been shot thru the eye in the
sky…
In this stadium…
In this stadium there were no promising soccer stars to
behold
No footlaunched spotted balls finding goals
No tickets to be bought and
sold
No fans on hand to cheer
No smiling confetti sparkling for all to hear
No
cameras rolling and snapping
to capture what happened in that horrific vomitous
moment…
In this stadium
In this stadium
In this stadium barking and cracking
with orders to fire
and the gutsplitting bursts of bullets
There were no heroes…
Their bloodied breathless torsos
had already watered the crying grass
and their
stars once heated with hope
had already been shot thru the eye in the sky…
*Chilean people’s artist Victor Jara… Killed in a stadium massacre in a purge
that accompanied the CIA sponsored military overthrow of the democratically
elected socialist president Salvador Allende in September 1973…Several
thousand Allende supporters were rounded up by the military at a soccer
stadium and slaughtered in a mass execution… Augusto Pinochet, who emerged
Chile’s dictator for years, is responsible for over 3000 killings and the
torture of over 30,000. There was a recent effort to have Pedro Pablo
Barrientos Nunez, one of his surviving officers believed to have directly
responsible for the beating and shooting of Jara, held liable for his role
Jara’s death in this massacre…
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