Domingo Jacinto
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I record this welcome 
to one of the spectators of my birth.
Chief of a tribe of  
twelve o’clock ghosts and spirits 
144 years old 
out on a Friday night with Digger Indians. 
I am the program 
older than the pines 
declared by a baby 
I begin my life with pages. 
I was born 
several months before our becoming informed 
of having been kept there 
verified or falsified.
I began to cry,  attaching, 
as they believed, simultaneously 
this property 
both these gifts 
inevitably unlucky in life 
as remarked by the clock of history. 
That prediction was the only remark
of sage women from the station 
held to all unlucky infants 
by anybody else.
But I do count. 
Although the feeble, 
present enjoyment of a playground 
of the day and hour 
was part of my inheritance
here on the Laguna Mountains. 
I can walk, see at night it was said 
“he is heartily his daughter”
hero of either gender,
the small hours born to strike, 
and I ran through what is now 
a government of the Question 
I will celebrate here
not at all complain 
a Digger Indian 
I record this welcome.


This is a cut-up.  Text from opening paragraphs of David Copperfield & "Digger Indian of California, 144 Years Old" Oakland Tribune, July 30, 1920
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I am the program
older than the pines
declared by a baby

There's something great in those three lines. This one's not in a critique forum, but I think it's one of the better ones I've seen of yours, I think you might want to try and develop it.
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