The privilege of being able to go back to sleep
2/28/2024 all privilege is our ability to maintain self-delusion, without interruption
Complicit
Con/Jur/d, 2/28/2024
It's hard (these days)
we’ve gotten older (those days)
natural to dislike the new innocence (today)
Meeting new people (and who isn’t born anew every morning)
too much history of complicity (still doing it)
defending your stories (the lies remain consistent)
The young build lives (based on our mistranslations)
USA is a misspelling, IPS is closer (Institutional Preservation Society)
we’re all good Germans (at night we hear marching in the
street — in Washington, DC before the Israeli consulate
Aaron Bushnell, after saying:
“I will no longer be complicit in genocide
I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest.”
self immolated
while burning, a cop point a gun at his
flaming uniform while he repeated “Free Palestine,”
Earlier in the week, The Smithsonian, also in the Oligarch’s
boardroom, DC, reported from the National University
of the US occupied territory, the country whose citizenship
boasts the journalist Julian Assange, coyly
called Australia, whose astrophysicists have found a
quasar being folded, spindled and mutilated by a
terrorist black -
hole 12-billion-years-ago
which was
500 TRILLION TIMES BRIGHTER THAN THE SUN)
Right now (billions of years in the future and
7.05435044782e+22 miles away)
our innocence/ignorance calculations (need to change)
THIS VIOLENCE - THIS INHUMANITY
Does not belong to you (or you or you)
WAKE UP! (02/25/2024)
in the vast emptiness (at our core)
AARON BUSHNELL (burned brighter than a quasar)
Now (carefully, carefully)
stay awake (Even here, there is danger
of other people’s lullabies, putting you back to sleep)
You were born without parents (motherless and fatherless)
We came out of (without ideology, race, god holding us fast)
Here, now among Spanish Moss and stars (who do YOU want to be)
Who do YOU want to be (here)
Much love,
Con/Jur/d, 2/28/2024