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established by the squint eyed expression you face at the supermarket.
you are looking a bit flushed,
have you considered that you might be wasting away from some unpronouncable disease?
or did you specifically grab me by the arm and shout "It's not the drugs, it's the romance of the drugs."?
is anybody home to take your messages from your stained fingers?
cornered again in your self dug hole,
tasting the tears you fling at me,
taking only half of the pie because in the end you already had your fingers in it.
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parrhesia
righteous anger will always light the flame of justice in others
do not sit down
do not shut up
do not wait until a 'better' time
if not now, when?
if not me, who?
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You are the heart of this place now, do0d..the curator, if you will.
To act boldly..stupid? Courageous? Admirable? Enviable?
To act with faith..stupid? Courageous? Admirable? Enviable?
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boldness may be stupid at times especially in these days of stifling censorship, political 'correctness', but i affirm any and every reason to act boldly:
me and my father went to return our rented videos to the grocery store. the kid behind the counter fell down and was writhing around on the ground in a seizure. my paramedic father jumped into action, got behind the counter and made sure the kid wasn't choking on his own tongue. he had asked me to go get help but i was just standing their with my mouth hanging open. he needed to tell me again, yelled at me, before i was shook from my frozen torpor. (my nervous system likes to play dead like a possum when i'm overwhelmed)
my middle name is literally faith because me and my mother had to be separated at my birth because i needed a NICU which the hospital i was born in didn't have and she ended up with an infection from my emergency caesarean section trapped in the first hospital on the other side of town. i think religion is the only thing that separates humans from other primates. faith isn't stupid unless it's used as a tool for oppression.
bernie sander's first campaign inspired me (lets not talk about the second one) so i got involved in my union, joined the contract action team. set up the text tree about our actions, had spreadsheets for picket line sign ups, made picket signs, talked to people at work, many who were afraid they would be fired in retaliation for any union activity. (the more labor history i know as of today, i am more understanding of those fears). i boldly, and maybe naively/stupidly told them that if we got fired the union would fight for us. but on my way to my first picket line dread built up in me. report to the shareholders by run the jewels gave me courage. by my second picket line i was leading the chants.
because if not me, who?
(my coworkers supporting their kids on that job needed me on that line for them even if they were too afraid or jaded to be on that line themselves)
if not now, when?
(the corporation i worked for closed that store last february more than likely because they were sick of my union and the pro-worker laws the city of seattle keeps passing one of which got me a wage theft settlement check this fall because one of the union stewards in my store knew how to legally document grievances and her documentation won all of us the money we were owed from a city law the company wasn't following)
instigator
troublemaker
rabble_rouser
all labels this blue collar irish working girl wears proudly
never_forget
an injury to one is an injury to all
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