<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492026" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Plain Citizen Juan De La Cruz</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">he thinks he is part of the government, <br>correct, <br>he is part of the people whom the government taxed<br>taking his money<br>and later some of his property, his chicken, his pig, his carabao<br>his plow, <br>then the government enters into war<br>plain juan de la cruz becomes the soldier<br>killing another soldier<br>in the killing fields in the mine fields he will soon lose his arm<br>if not both his feet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">plain juan de la cruz<br>then the rebels come, the insurgents, the belligerents<br>juan de la cruz is not in his house<br>his wife and children are now the pawns<br>the victims<br>the servants<br>the wife cooks for the comrades the child runs to the nearby store<br>to buy cigarettes and liquour<br>then they too will ask for the chicken, the pigs, the carabao, <br>the rice and some vegetables and beans and <br>a little money to support their cause</div><div style="margin:10px 0">plain juan de la cruz<br>plain citizen, will he survive the war on both sides? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">let us have a sandwich<br>for a metaphor, this poem looks like it, <br>plain de la cruz is in between</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and he has no choice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=492026" data-title="Plain Citizen Juan De La Cruz de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="he thinks he is part of the government, correct, he is part of the people whom the government taxed taking his money and later some of his property, his chicken, his pig, his carabao his plow, then the government enters into war plain juan de l..."></div> </div> </div>

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