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Gardening is my graffiti.
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I grow my art.
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I beautify lawns, parkways.
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I use the garden, the soil,
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like it's a piece of cloth,
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and the plants and the trees,
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that's my embellishment for that cloth.
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I live in a food desert.
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So me and my group,
L.A. Green Grounds,
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we got together and we
started planting my food forest,
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fruit trees, you know, the whole nine.
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I have witnessed my garden
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become a tool for the education,
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a tool for the transformation
of my neighborhood.
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To change the community,
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you have to change the
composition of the soil.
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We are the soil.
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I want us all to become
ecolutionary renegades,
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gangstas, gangsta gardeners.
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What I'm talking about is
putting people to work,
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and getting kids off the street,
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and letting them know the joy,
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the pride
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and the honor in growing your own food.
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