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Ode to bread<\/span><\/p>\nBread,\u00a0<\/span>
you rise<\/span>
from flour,\u00a0<\/span>
water<\/span>
and fire.<\/span>
Dense or light,<\/span>
flattened or round,<\/span>
you duplicate<\/span>
the mother’s<\/span>
rounded womb,<\/span>
and earth’s<\/span>
twice-yearly<\/span>
swelling.<\/span>
How simple<\/span>
you are, bread,<\/span>
and how profound!<\/span>
You line up<\/span>
on the baker’s\u00a0<\/span>
powdered trays<\/span>
like silverware or plates<\/span>
or pieces of paper<\/span>
and suddenly<\/span>
life washes\u00a0<\/span>
over you,<\/span>
there’s the joining of seed<\/span>
and fire,<\/span>
and you’re growing, growing<\/span>
all at once<\/span>
like<\/span>
hips, mouths, breasts,<\/span>
mounds of earth,<\/span>
or people’s lives.<\/span>
The temperature rises, you’re overwhelmed<\/span>
by fullness, the roar<\/span>
of fertility,<\/span>
and suddenly\u00a0<\/span>
your golden color is fixed.<\/span>
And when your little wombs<\/span>
were seeded,<\/span>
a brown scar<\/span>
laid its burn the length<\/span>
of your two halves’<\/span>
toasted<\/span>
juncture.<\/span>
Now,\u00a0<\/span>
whole,<\/span>
you are\u00a0<\/span>
mankind’s energy,<\/span>
a miracle often admired,<\/span>
the will to live itself.<\/span><\/p>\nO bread familiar to every mouth,<\/span>
we will not kneel before you:<\/span>
men<\/span>
do no<\/span>
implore<\/span>
unclear gods<\/span>
or obscure angels:<\/span>
we will make our own bread<\/span>
out of sea and soil,<\/span>
we will plant wheat<\/span>
on our earth and the planets,<\/span>
bread for every mouth,\u00a0<\/span>
for every person,<\/span>
our daily bread.\u00a0<\/span>
Because we plant its seed<\/span>
and grow it<\/span>
not for one man<\/span>
but for all,<\/span>
there will be enough:<\/span>
there will be bread<\/span>
for all the peoples of the earth.<\/span>
And we will also share with one another<\/span>
whatever has<\/span>
the shape and the flavor of bread:<\/span>
the earth itself,<\/span>
beauty<\/span>
and love–<\/span>
all<\/span>
taste like bread<\/span>
and have its shape,<\/span>
the germination of wheat.<\/span>
Everything<\/span>
exists to be shared,<\/span>
to be freely given,<\/span>
to multiply.<\/span><\/p>\nThis is why, bread,<\/span>
if you flee<\/span>
from mankind’s houses,<\/span>
if they hide you away<\/span>
or deny you,<\/span>
if the greedy man<\/span>
pimps for you or\u00a0<\/span>
the rich man\u00a0<\/span>
takes you over,<\/span>
if the wheat<\/span>
does not yearn for the furrow and the soil:<\/span>
then, bread,\u00a0<\/span>
we will refuse to pray:<\/span>
bread<\/span>
we will refuse to beg.<\/span>
We will fight for you instead, side by side with the others,<\/span>
with everyone who knows hunger.<\/span>
We will go after you<\/span>
in every river and in the air.<\/span>
We will divide the entire earth among ourselves<\/span>
so that you may germinate,<\/span>
and the earth will go forward<\/span>
with us:<\/span>
water, fire, and mankind<\/span>
fighting at our side.<\/span>
Crowned<\/span>
with sheafs of wheat,\u00a0<\/span>
we \u00a0will win<\/span>
earth and bread for everyone.<\/span>
Then\u00a0<\/span>
life itself<\/span>
will have the shape of bread,<\/span>
deep and simple,\u00a0<\/span>
immeasurable and pure.<\/span>
Every living thing<\/span>
will have its share<\/span>
of soil and life,<\/span>
and the bread we eat each morning,<\/span>
everyone’s daily bread,<\/span>
will be hallowed<\/span>
and sacred,<\/span>
because it will have been won<\/span>
by the longest and costliest<\/span>
of human struggles.<\/span><\/p>\nThis earthly\u00a0<\/span>Victory<\/em>
does not have wings:<\/span>
she wears bread on her shoulders instead.<\/span>
Courageously she soars,<\/span>
setting the world free,<\/span>
like a baker<\/span>
born aloft on the wind.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0-Pablo Neruda<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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