Wealthy vampires <br />With the cold hands of executioners <br />Execute <br />Executive decisions <br />Determined to destroy <br />What 1 million women, children, and men <br />1910 <br />Died, drowning in the rage of battle. <br />Mothers, half naked <br />Infants clutching thier necks <br />Running frantically <br />Tripping over the bodies of their sons <br />Teeth gnashing <br />Swinging machete <br />Spitting blood and mud, and screaming: <br />Land, and liberty! <br />Were erased. <br />Buried and burned <br />Along with the memory of the dead <br />Along with the ejido. <br />With the smooth stroke of a pen <br />And with the ghost of nixon present in their eyes <br />They smiled. <br />And pronounced the omnipitence <br />Of the free market <br />The profits of profit <br />Extending the scurge of columbus and pizarro <br />The freedom to buy things you can never afford <br />The freedom for indians to buy corn that once flourished overgrown in their <br />backyards <br />The freedom to die of curable disease <br />The freedom to watch their children's stomachs swell and burst <br />The freedom to starve and die <br />Without land <br />Or liberty <br />But ramona, with eyes of obsidian <br />Peering through her blood and sweat drenched mask <br />Darding, unseen <br />Changing direction with the swiftness of a bird <br />Through the shanty's of the canyon <br />With every coyote, every insect, every phylum of life <br />Urging her, propelling her forward. <br />The leaves and branches of the forest <br />Part for miles, clearing her path <br />The voices and screams of the dead beneathe her feet <br />Echo in the deepest chasm of her soul <br />Hurling her, toward the city <br />History surging through her veins <br />Pulsing through her fingers <br />Hurling her, towards the city <br />She caresses her trigger <br />And the words of magome fulfil her being <br />And with each shot she fires, she affirms her movement <br />Saying: <br />Enough! enough! <br />No! <br />I will see my own blood flow <br />Before you take my land...or my liberty
