Poetry by Alexander Gottlieb
My ears won’t stop ringing
• I can feel the darkness moving in
• Surrounding us
• Don’t invite it in
• I reach for a cigarette
Can’t think about it too much or else
I’ll blow my got-damned brains out
• I watched someone (a Palestinian civilian, I presume)
walk, stumble, and then explode when a missile struck him.
• I watched the Twitch video of Aaron Bushnell
• I have seen so many dead babies and children
• Can’t think about it too much or else
I’ll blow my got-damned brains out
Human Rights party.
• Liberal clowns pat themselves on the back and give each
other gold stars for pretending to care about their neighbors
while simultaneously doing nothing meaningful to help
• They receive gold stars for sending money over to support
the Ukrainians while simultaneously doing next to nothing
to provide black southerners with water
• Did Mark Ruffalo ever save Flint?
○ That’s in Michigan – don’t digress.
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez walks on stage to the song “Vote
the Pain Away” to the tune of Peaches’ hit song, performed
by Tori Amos or some shit
Stamina.
• Did you know that if you see sum asshole posting
neofascist propaganda you can just punch them? It’s okay!
○ You should fight people more
○ You should find a sparring partner first
• You’re delusional if you think a war
isn’t coming to your home
• You better start prepping
• Some folks don’t have the luxury of denial for so long
○ (For them it’s already here)
FML.
• I flushed all of my drugs this morning
• Realizing that it’s probably not good to put that sort of thing
into the sewer system. It doesn’t matter
○ The fish are on Prozac & Oxy
○ Please don’t disregard what I’m saying
because I’m honest about my mental illness
Buy more guns to protect yourself from all the guns
• Don’t forget the ammo
• We pretend like the American Civil War never happened
Like slavery never existed. It’s easy to ignore this far north;
It seems so far removed for us white folks
• Their poverty is ours
• Such a mass of land we’ve occupied
○ *Borders by M.I.A. plays*
• The civil war wasn’t that long ago
• Segregation wasn’t that long ago
• Ruby Bridges is still alive
• Columbine was just yesterday
• Ulvade was just seconds ago, but again I digress
• In 2022, none of the 606+ mass shootings in America
were perpetrated by someone with a uterus
• Cops are killing more and more everyday
and they face almost no consequences
○ They’re building “cop cities” all across the nation!
• fearmongerdotcom*
Did you know?? Congo is considered the rape capital of the world. On average, 48 women are raped every hour!**
STFU.
• I was going to make some grand, sweeping statement
about how we don’t actually care about much of anything
beyond our doorstep
○ About how the global south doesn’t really exist
in most of our minds
○ About our history of inaction
unless there are oil/mineral interests at stake
○ …
• *This is America by Childish Gambino plays*
STOP
i. Stop what you’re doing.
ii. Take a step back.
iii. Observe the situation.
iv. Proceed effectively.
Sources * https://cffad.org/fear-and-fear-mongering/
** https://www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/2125c9c2-0bdd-4eb4-8719-2b628af6fd54.pdf
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