This is is the harm reduction candidate but people are still dying from bad shit. Bad shit, people are still dying 
from some bad shit. 

You know my dad OD’ed it was 2003.  
Mother’s Day Weekend. It was some bad shit killed him and he was Gone and it was Mother’s Day Weekend. 

You know I don’t talk about it much but 
I hear people say these people are the harm reduction candidates, and people are still dying from really bad shit. 

Prayer is separated by the willing mind. And the willing heart. It is in that space between the planning and the doing. It is in that space where we become warriors and tear down the walls. It is in the magic of blood, of tears of course sweat, of course it is in the shit and piss and cum that we seep. That we give up unto the ground that we return to when it is our time to go. When it is our time to speak we will not hesitate. We will not falter and we will never return to the black hole of forgetfulness. 

These texts are complementary; read together they offer both how one decides to act, and the sensory and psychic experiences of Khiam, the consequences of revolutionary action.
— Read on liberatedtexts.com/reviews/resistance-and-revolutionary-will-soha-bechara-and-nawal-baidouns-testimonies-of-khiam-prison/

Under scrutiny, abolition as a framework falls short in comprehensively analyzing the interconnected conditions faced by colonized people.
— Read on hoodcommunist.org/2024/01/11/thoughts-on-abolition/amp/

Rubber bullets rebounding off the backs of passengers at Atocha. Which
Nation really loves work?
— Read on proteanmag.com/2024/01/13/handedness-excerpt/

“The same ‘reason’ I thought I could help change the world is the ‘reason’ I thought the sonnet form would lead to a ‘conclusion.’” — Bernadette Mayer, author’s note to the 2014 reprint of Sonnets (1989) The revolutionary poem’s minimal demand is to trace the coordinates of struggle, even and especially as that struggle fails,
— Read on post45.org/2024/01/shadows-of-the-occupation-wendy-trevinos-sonnets-for-brass-knuckles-doodles-and-nonprofit-epistemology/

So You’re a Professor? Here’s What You Can Do to Oppose Genocide – Steve Salaita
— Read on stevesalaita.com/so-youre-a-professor-heres-what-you-can-do-to-oppose-genocide/

how was your day sweetie pie?
is today the day you wanna die?
whose slings and arrows did you catch 
i know those fools are no match
but they can still suck you dry
is today the day you wanna die?