Marathon

Today, 10/10/10, the Peace Poets ran 26.3 miles through the streets of Buenos Aires. I wrote five pages of reflections, celebrating the human spirit of the event and questioning the consequences of it being wasteful and classist. Can’t keep the peace poet quiet… I ran with Lau and two friends from New York and while it was fun to be part of this river of runners, I couldn’t help thinking about how the youth I’m working with will probably never have the flow to participate in something like this and wondering why we gotta waste so much water… I’ll try to edit down those pages for yall to read it. It ended up envisioning a new kind of marathon… one that takes the whole world into account. For now, I’m just letting you know. I ran madd far…

And when the going got tough and I thought my legs were gonna fall off I threw on the headphones and CypherMatrix rejuvenated me completely. Nothing like hearing my brothers on the mic to reinvigorate the soul. We finished, we hugged and they handed us a little piece of paper that said “GRATIS: 1/2 Chori”… which meant we got to get in a line behind a huge grill and they were gonna hook us up with half a sausage sandwich for free… So Argentinean! You gotta love it. Marathon = Victory. More to come….