The Great Wall of Los Angeles by Judith F. Baca
Music by Cuñao (cunaomusic.com)
Poem based on Mural by Judy Baca.
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Who’s Story Do We Tell?
Whose Story Do We Tell?
(Homage to Judy Baca & the Great Wall of Los Angeles)
By Mike Sonksen
1.
Judy Baca paints to interrogate
whose monument where?
Whose story do we tell?
Baca paints public history
Inventory in the inner city
The Chumash animal spirits
escaped the La Brea tar pits
Canoeing to the Channel Islands
with a school of blue dolphins
California was Turtle Island
before gente de razon colonized
Long before Cabrillo & Portola
Grizzlies roamed the flora
of marshlands & willow thickets
The legend of Califa
Junipero Serra envisioned
21 Spanish missions
44 Pobladores built the pueblo..
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