Community Is Dead and The Battle For California

Community is Dead

Community is dead
We do not want to know our neighbors
Smile and exchange inane pleasantries
Hypnotized by the grin and the wave

That is what we save
A grin and wave are all we need
To decide that who we live close to aren't sore
Community is dead

All alone he lived
He went to work he said "hello"
He grilled in his backyard and showed his teeth when you asked
You just knew he was a nice man

He helped you take out your trash cans
He helped you with any great or menial task
There was always a smile and a "hello"
He had a home, no wife, and no kids

You knew him as a nice man
He was more than willing to help the community
And now the community is dead
Because the community understood what a smile meant

Smiles mean goodness and happiness are sent
What most have said
Is that this was a wonderful and safe community
He killed them all! Every member of this community damned
You never know your neighbors
To the left and right of you, adjacent and far
It is clear that you definitely did not know that neighbor's core
We found 31 dead bodies in his yard

(Mathews Street, Boyle Heights, USA) Photo by Lizette Castellanos

The Battle For California 

There is no way the United States let's us go
Of course Canada wants us
Mexico used to be us and still should be
What you all need to know
Is that if you want us
We have to control all policy

(Mathews Street, Boyle Heights, USA) Photo by Lizette Castellanos