Paloma Jiménez 🕊️ D10 🕊️ FIN

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PALOMA JIMÉNEZ
DISTRICT TEN - FOURTEEN
TRIBUTE OF THE 4TH ANNUAL HUNGER GAMES
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We must combine the toughness of the serpent
with the softness of a dove,
a tough mind with a tender heart.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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P A L O M I T A.

"I have a meanness inside me, as real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you can stomp on it."

Our land has always been fought over, ragged and torn like the cracks that stretch its soil from under the sun. We’re a ripped canvas, with so many needles trying to mend the fringes that you’re unsure of where it starts and ends. But one thing is for certain, a prophecy as old as time.

The sundial starts at twelve, while our towns’ men lead our steeds into the battle streaked horizon; it doesn’t matter which battle, for they’re all the same. At six the clouded gunpowder shall settle. The white droned vultures hover on the edges, while women and children retrieve their fathers, brothers, cousins, and uncles. Half-past eight, their oil tipped hands streak iron along our wrists, as we drag their emptied promises into large pits. No markings are needed, because we know where our ancestors are.

By ten the women and children weep, the vultures gaining in on the weak. Yet those who remain by eleven shall rise once more. Readying their machetes and guns for hunting more. And by twelve they’ve hurried off.

We hug each other, feeding the little ones and helping our mothers and aunts ready for the day. Battles are pointless when the ending is the same. The women and children shall bury our men, taking after their roles, and living to see another day again. Where we’ll raise our own, to fight and die for their own. While the albino vultures lurk, always watching with a steady eye. Waiting, waiting for us to fall while we make it by.

elegant & gillian flynn

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 I think I did it Mr. Krabs, please look over my little dove 
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