Diego Rivera Mural Song
Pan-American Unity
by Michael Calvello
	1 The long body of the snake Quetzalcoatl white fangs coming at you blue yellow red plumes 2 the brown Indians smell the earth one of them wants to fly he stands with yellow paper wings Indians are making jewelry making a fire deer-headed Indians weavers musicians and the huge brown hand Latino hand earth hand with four turquoise blue stars raised to you 3 Indians watching Washington America beginning to form and the Indians dying under silver bayonets, bullets black cannons World Wars The steel machine has steel fangs and part of a brown hand Half-flesh, half-robot The face is white-gray, brown Steel fangs facing you barbed wire Nazi wrist holds a dagger the American flag is draped over an arm holds the dagger away a dead body over barbed wire sick yellow insect man tear gas man over barbed wire 4 all of us sitting among steel machines but there is man and woman they hold thin roots a tree of life between them she wears a white dress he a blue shirt blue jeans and Diego almost lost in all of this an artist painting a misty sailboat