<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=543510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Sharecropper's Pantoum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The drug cocktails that have slashed the mortality rate of HIV-positive people in the U.S. and Western Europe are all but non-existent in Haiti. [O]nly 3 to 4 percent of people with AIDS [there] have access to the newest drugs.'<br>-The Chicago Tribune,2003</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Hauling this pine box on a black Chevrolet, <br>I pray to a candle at the end of its wick.<br>White burial clothes in a garbage bag, <br>I ride for a place to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pray to a candle at the end of its wick<br>on the mud road home from Port-au-Prince<br>and ride toward a place to die<br>where mangoes hang and sugarcane turns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the dust road home from Port-au-Prince, <br>I am a black skeleton—6 feet tall, yet 90 pounds—<br>where mangoes hang and sugarcane burns.<br>I turned the earth before I got this thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A lesioned skeleton—a rainbow tall, now 70 pounds—<br>I dream across the waters and of the miracles there<br>and turn to earth in the jaws of this thing: <br>eyes—black holes, lungs—green clouds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreaming across the waters and of the miracles there, <br>white burial clothes in a garbage bag, <br>eyes—black holes, lungs—green clouds, <br>I haul my pine coffin in a black Chevrolet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=M.+Ayodele+Heath">M. Ayodele Heath</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=543510" data-title="A Sharecropper's Pantoum de M. Ayodele Heath" data-description="'The drug cocktails that have slashed the mortality rate of HIV-positive people in the U.S. and Western Europe are all but non-existent in Haiti. [O]nly 3 to 4 percent of people with AIDS [there] have access to the newest drugs.' -The Chicago Trib..."></div> </div> </div>

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