faces in the street
in the financial district or ghetto red zone
the anonymity of casual citizenry
faces of color recall another land
the mind can hear the music
pentatonic or percussive
and song
the relationship with the official language
everyone can sing
the soul of an egyptian chanteuse
of a bangkok songstress
or a mambo chorale in brazil
the ecological harmonies of the pygmies
or the subterranean hi-life of azania
namibia zimbabwe
third world and american
english speaking with roots in ancestral lands
(like everybody else, just about)
belonging to a new world
yet of an older world
but with the perception of both
keen in the mind
that gives another world
consciousness even cosmic
the third eye
astral base of the third world