"You were hesitant, and scared to stand too close to me.
So I slung my arm around your shoulders and introduced you to every friend that I could find.
You smelled like honeysuckle blooming in the summer.
Though the winds were carrying a colder message, your very being reminded me of warmth.
It was a party where we ended up that night. I offered you a drink and I swear I saw you thank the Gods.
Later, when we were laying in your apartment I had no thoughts of slipping you out of your dress though you expected as much.
I needed to learn you, I wanted to learn you.
I swear there were bruises on the heels of your feet, you feel being awake is hard.
I could tell you tried to hide your full liquor cabinets- the place you go at night, when your inner war is winning and digging flags into your skin. Soldiers were digging up uncharted territory, and inhabiting no mans land while you pour a drink.
I do not claim to understand you. I have always been my own friend.
But I have enough friend or lover in me to sit here and tell you every reason you are good enough.
Please. Do not dwell on what has broken you.
I can remember why I walked over to you in that cafe’.
-The way you held your coffee like it was giving you life. And when your hair caught the sun, it glittered with red. The way you shake your knee when you get nervous.
You enchanted me. I couldn’t even taste the sugar in my coffee that day, because you were sweeter.
I can say to you now, I thought of love before I ever knew your name.
I lay here, running my fingers down your side. And to answer your question swimming in and out of your curls- no. I am not repulsed by your scars in or outside of this skin.
Your eyes start to dart, looking for me to run.
No.
You nearly wept when I kissed your each and every scar. I do not care if they were self inflicted, made by carelessness of others or merely the result of the war taking place in your very bones.
I must kiss them to kiss you, I must hold them to hold you, I will love them as I love you.
Those scars do not scare me, you do not scare me.
I’ll make you a cup of coffee, you will hold it as a lifeline.
And if the soldiers decide its time for rain, I will wipe away those tears.
Tell me your stories, you are my uncharted territory.
"
![thinkmexican:
The Great Mexican Maize Massacre
En Español
Agribusiness giants Monsanto, DuPont and Dow are plotting the boldest coup of a global food crop in history. If their requests to allow a massive commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) maize are approved in the next two weeks by the government of outgoing president Felipe Calderón, this parting gift to the gene giants will amount to a knife in the heart of the center of origin and diversity for maize. The consequences will be grave – and global. With the approvals and December planting deadlines looming, social movements and civil society organizations have called for an end to all GM maize in Mexico. Mexico’s Union of Concerned Scientists (UCCS) has called on the Mexican government to stop the processing of any application for open-field release of GM maize in Mexico. ETC Group joins these calls, and appeals to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – intergovernmental bodies mandated to support food security and biodiversity – to take immediate action.
Outrage and alarm rang out through Mexico when the world’s two largest commercial seed companies, Monsanto and DuPont (whose seed business is known as DuPont Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.), and Dow AgroSciences (the world’s 8th largest seed company) applied to the government for the planting of 2,500,000 hectares (more than 6 million acres) of transgenic maize in Mexico. The land area is massive – about the size of El Salvador. Scientists have identified thousands of peasant varieties of maize, making Mexico the global repository of maize genetic diversity. If the agribusiness applications are approved, it will mark the world’s first commercial-scale planting of genetically modified varieties of a major food crop in its center of origin.
“If Mexico’s government allows this crime of historic significance to happen, GMOs will soon be in the food of the entire Mexican population, and genetic contamination of Mexican peasant varieties will be inevitable. We are talking about damaging more than 7,000 years of Indigenous and [campesino] work that created maize – one of the world’s three most widely eaten crops,” said Verónica Villa from ETC’s Mexico office. “As if this weren’t bad enough, the companies want to plant Monsanto’s herbicide-tolerant maize [Mon603] on more than 1,400,000 hectares. This is the same type of GM maize that has been linked to cancer in rats according to a recently published peer-reviewed study.”
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