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Remembering the Future
First, the peacocks came To remind me to glitch through time,And the field they rose from responds faster when I don’t hide. Strange birds on full displayfor how strange the future was.We purged our insides,Stumbled through the park. Watchers observed under a tree.Dressed like zombie doctors,covered in fake blood. I watch the watchers back. I wondered who…
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A Colonized Tongue Imprisons the Mind
A Colonized Tongue Imprisons the Mind: The English Language as a System of Disconnection and Enchanting it for Liberation The English language is the world’s most widely spoken language with about 400 million native speakers, and over 1 billion that have learned English as a second language. To truly understand the power words have to…
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unknown variables.
Vile words, venomous tonesvibrated around me, occasionally penetratingthrough me, until I said to myself –“Any and all energy directed at and meant to harm me,transmutes into creative energy.” My field began to expand, as my fingers typed, eyes widewords like bullets suspended in time, as the silver thread atop my headtugged with enough tension to…
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The Power & Responsibility of Observing a Conflict: The Resolution and Quantum Superposition
Is there inherent power in the act of observation? Saul Alinsky (1971) stated that “Power is not only what you have, but what your enemy thinks you have.” The idea of perceived power is usually applied to the dynamic between parties, but what about the individual passively observing the power dynamics and the subsequent conflicts…
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Saturn Devouring Her Sun
A laugh that feeds onall the light in the roomLike nails on a chalkboard,demanding a performance back. A ritual meant to harvestanother’s root, a succubus devouring during another’ssolar return. Binding them with your wordswritten across the back of your hand. Carefully paintingyour friends withthe brush of envy. Using words like hot mess, crazy, intense, slow, andfat. I was…
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