I COULD WORK IF I COULD WORK WITH SOMEBODY

I could work if I could work with somebody
where politics and religion aren't a commodity
not trade my blind work for your blind work
or to work the time idly.
I could work if I could work with somebody.

I could work if I had a community
where a government's plastic platter provides no moral immunity
to live so apart, though we have no real independence, 
to confuse and shout down in groups untrendy opinions/expressions,
in whose expression could lie the truth's fulfillment possibilities.
I could work if I had a community.

I could work if our work wasn't a test
of individual survival or to separate and see who fits best
if to teach were self and community empowering
motivated not by blind ambition but rest.
I could work if our work wasn't a test.

Started while residing in NM, unsure of street or city (Santa Fe or Albuquerque); 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998; age 26, 27, 28, 29, or 30.