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Created page with "{{Template:Youtube}} ====New California Industry ==== <poem> I used to know exactly where I was Now I must stand in the center of the San Joaquin Valley heart of my heart to even locate where I belong I look to the north—I see prisons I scan the south—I see only prisons where half a century ago wild flowers spread a Persian carpet for guests Now I pick my way through shattered lives broken bottles and half-buried guns and knives I cannot forget and do not allow my..."

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====New California Industry ====
<poem>
I used to know exactly where I was
Now I must stand in the center
of the San Joaquin Valley
heart of my heart
to even locate where I belong

I look to the north—I see prisons
I scan the south—I see only prisons
where half a century ago wild flowers
spread a Persian carpet for guests

Now I pick my way through shattered lives
broken bottles
and half-buried guns and knives

I cannot forget
and do not allow myself to forget
that once I saw a giant condor
in the azure sky
and thought it was a mythical ''roc''—

The only birds in these skies
are crime watch helicopters
swooping darkly above barred vans
seeking more desert land for prisons </poem>

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