It’s not easy, living. Our human existence is an ongoing experience of what Baruch Spinoza called servitudo (bondage): we are constantly, despite ourselves and our best efforts, at the mercy of forces greater than us, subject to events and encounters that cause emotions we’d rather not feel. As the great British thinker Kate Bush once put it, “Just being alive—it can really hurt.”
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science affirms indigenous knowledge
        after refuting dismissing destroying burning caging it
for centuries
    commodification to follow

more bombs less food!
fight the good fight

why are children suffering?
experts offer boilerplate

planet becoming unlivable
GDP up 1%! hip hip hooray!!

you 
lovely lady of the south
who i loved so much
who i love
and could love 
in new ways
untapped potential
is the best kind
tho powder-kegs 
can leave you blind

there’s sweeter water on the other side
of this the sold-short too much suffering
so what? you say
i am humbled by your skepticism 
fuckin figure it out and get freaked

how much longer will
we fall for the trick ?
put in the ballot
but it don’t seem to stick
how much longer will
we put trust in them?
who pull the knife  
slowly - but then twist it in
again, why must we wait 
for life to begin?
o why must we wait 
for life once again?

dost thou admit 
the counter-indices
betwixt thee?

thy sword and shield
set upon the 
mystery? 

heroine and villainy
you and you and
you joker?

what is thy malady?
that i kept myself 
for poker. 

now! 
the time 
to act is 
now!
fascism is here
no doubt
george jackson 
told us 
the longer we wait
the more painful
it will be 
the more atrocious 
so
now!
the time
to act
now!