At PalFest tonight this poem was read. And what an utterly amazing one it is. This speaks to me. I love it. There It Is, by Jayne Cortez. My friend they dont care if youre an individualist a leftist a rightist a shithead or a snake They will try to exploit you absorb you confine you disconnect you isolate you or kill you And you will disappear into your own rage into your own insanity into your own poverty into a word a phrase a slogan a cartoon and then ashes The ruling class will tell you that there is no ruling class as they organize their liberal supporters into white supremist lynch mobs organize their children into ku klux klan gangs organize their police into killer cops organize their propaganda into a devise to ossify us with angel dust pre-occupy us with western symbols in african hair styles inoculate us with hate institutionalize us with ignorance hypnotize us with a monotonous sound designed to make us evade reality and stomp our lives away And we are programmed to self destruct to fragment to get buried under covert intelligence operations of unintelligent committees impulsed toward death And there it is The enemies polishing their penises between oil wells at the pentagon the bulldozers leaping into demolition dances the old folks dying of starvation the informers wearing out shoes looking for crumbs the lifeblood of the earth almost dead in the greedy mouth of imperialism And my friend they dont care if youre an individualist a leftist a rightist a shithead or a snake They will spray you with a virus of legionnaire’s disease fill your nostrils with the swine flu of their arrogance stuff your body into a tampon of toxic shock syndrome try to pump all the resources of the world into their own veins and fly off into the wild blue yonder to pollute another planet And if we dont fight if we dont resist if we dont organize and unify and get the power to control our own lives Then we will wear the exaggerated look of captivity the stylized look of submission the bizarre look of suicide the dehumanized look of fear and the decomposed look of repression forever and ever and ever And there it is Nuff said, you know
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 22:51:03 +0000
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