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The Poetry of a Prison Uprising – Dissent Magazine — Read on http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-poetry-of-a-prison-uprising

the world has ended 5,255 timesbut in columbus circle, new york city the latest holocausts are celebrated there stands cristobal a vision of terror/made permanent at fiftysecond street, across the circle is a ring of accomplices to the nazis, deutzsche bankhugo boss (the latest fashions) are they playing our face? well sure enough is trumpContinue reading “Columbus Circle”

thank you for the stories laughs and winei hope we have time to hang in the next line

Internationalism in the Black American community, in particular, has been critical, not least because of the potency of white supremacy on these shores. — Read on monthlyreview.org/press/horne-and-burden-stelly-on-anti-blackness-anti-radicalism-and-the-internationalist-counterforce-the-e3w-review-of-books/

Ishchenko explores the paradoxes of a politics of national-identity recognition in the absence of national-economic redistribution. What does it mean to ‘decolonize Ukraine’ in neoliberal times? — Read on newleftreview.org/issues/ii138/articles/volodymyr-ishchenko-ukrainian-voices

I will make coffee I will fall in loveAgain. I will make coffeeI will fall in loveAgain. I will make coffeeI will fall in loveAgain. I will make loveI will fall in coffeeAgain. I will make artI will love coffeeAgain. I will love myselfI will coffee loveAgain. I will love truthI will make coffeeAgain.

you should know better than that which maims youframes you and aims totame you should know betterthan that which came before in a desperate plea to fameshame is a useful feeling anger too – but not so muchthat it leaves you reelingand out of touch

“…the next revolution, if it is guided by Socialist principle, must necessarily drive them to Communism, and Communism drive them to Anarchy.” The Necessity of Communism – Freedom (1887)

“We are thus forced to recognize that each individual, while remaining totally free in his actions, can only act in common, and by this very fact … Anarchy and Communism – Le Drapeau Noir (1883)

“She was married, true; but if one’s husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.”Continue reading “An Errant Quotation”