the almost-surreal beauty of the evening of the 29th day of April, 2024 CE Cenozoic Era Quarternary Period Anthropocene Epoch Michigan, North America
“Why is the World so beautiful?” asks, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer.
It didn’t have to be — the Earth could’ve been Big-Banged out into a uniform, utilitarian and dull rocky planet — evolving without bluebirds, banana trees and bioluminescent jellyfish — or April’s apple blossoms, golden-pink sky Sunsets, and frog choruses,
Art Not Genocide Alliance manifesto as distributed and posted at the April 2024 Venice Biennale to protest the inclusion of and to demand the boycott of the Israeli Pavilion aka The Genocide Pavilion
In a world where genocide unfolds before our very eyes, shielded by nation-state rhetoric and bolstered by the imperial powers of our times, we bear witness to unspeakable horrors. This witnessing is not metaphorical – it is stark reality. To witness now is to be complicit; ignorance is no excuse, and inaction is cowardice.
What is it that cannot be stopped?
The global state structure, which dominated the 20th century, not only allows but actively enables genocide in Gaza and elsewhere in this world. Every genocide is perpetuated by a state. This machinery of destruction, guided by settler colonialism, fueled by capitalism, empowered by technological might, and covered by complicit media giants, must be dismantled. We are confronted with ongoing efforts to alienate us from our political agency and the ability to strive towards a moral and just world for all. We ask: If this level of atrocity is now acceptable, then what is deemed unacceptable? We must reconsider what structures national identities have produced and restore our severed connection to the land as a source of our identity and political existence.
The Palestinian struggle and resistance comes to remind us of what should not be forgotten: the people and the land embody each other, in time and place. It is within this unbreakable bond that we envision the future, it is within this bond that we learn from the past, and through it we engage with our present. We refuse the state of the world: the brutality of maintaining the hegemony of the powerful and the complicity of those who turn a blind eye to injustice.
What role can art and POETRY play in a future built on genocide?
The Zionist state’s atrocities permeate every level of existence. It devours all human knowledge and science by utilizing technology and social engineering to produce killing target and destruction lists. Within these new artificial intelligence technologies, every total meaning can be devoured, every total meaning can kill.
Now is the time for art and poetry. For art that rejects the logic of prevailing power. For poetry that resists the totalizing narratives that fuel the killing machines of the perpetrator. Art is inherently political-in its message, production, and presentation. It engages with society, assuming a role either in complicity or resistance.
We must defend our agency as political beings, stateless as humanity itself, collective as what our societies are, we are bound to organize an resist on multiple fronts to halt the genocide and prevent it as a future.
Art and poetry represent our liberated knowledge, freed from the belly of the beast. This moment demands that we reclaim our political agency; in its clarity, it empowers us to turn imagination into affirmative actions, forging poetic structures of collectivity-a return to the essence of our humanity. We belong to the world, to the earth, to the land, and through this agency, we move, act, and refuse to be silent accomplices to the state’s atrocities. We cannot ignore the oppressive conditions under which creativity thrives. Faced with censorship co-option, we must resist glorifying the regime or fading into obscurity.
the devils don’t need the details: a rough timeline, character sketch just like their old testaments, will do just fine
their new codices say “them” are the animals, illegals, terrorists, insurgents divergent or merely, existent predicated on their math of Dominion and omission
demons conceived, incubated and developed in Tel Aviv, NSA, USA traitors to the human race pledged allegiance to The Apartheid State they migrate to Silicon Valley and live in our clouds, seed and feed your tech portfolio buy your complicity too easy and relatively, cheaply
they know you traffic and travel comfortably with your BlackRock War Dividend Platinum Rewards™️ Card that your urbane lifestyle co-signs ecocide that you’ll reliably Demsplain a genocide as mothers, children, olive trees, & the seas die in real time before we, the real humans’ eyes
the cultured parasites, comfortably-numbed bystanders in the Zone of Interest living their dream lives,
as students and artists and workers and poets resist their silencing and their systems
“We are not talking about any political solution. We are not talking about politics at all. We are talking about survival. Our survival will be guaranteed by we, the human people, accepting our responsibilities and honoring the Earth and the natural world of which we are a part will guarantee our survival. There are natural laws that we must honor and that we must obey. This is the only way in which can show the rightful honor to The Earth. We must remember that The Earth is the source of all of our life. The Earth takes care of us while we are alive in this form and The Earth takes us back when we have departed to the spirit world. We must remember The Earth. We must remember our spiritual, real power connection to The Earth. We are an extension of The Mother Earth. This is our source of power, not the economics, not the politics, not repressive government, not liberal government. Our source of power is us and our spiritual connection to The Earth and our recognition of that.”
-John Trudell
“Freedom... We’re born into a reality where you have to pay to be born, you have pay to die, and you gotta have money to live. Now where is the free?”
-John Trudell
“Our obligations and our loyalty have to be to the earth, and they have to be to our sense of community and to our people and to our relations. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars. That has been the consistent history of Western civilization and the American Corporate State Government – that’s reality. They are not our friends, they do not care about us. We have to face the reality that we have an enemy.”
-John Trudell
“600 years ago, that word ‘Indian,’ that sound was never made in this hemisphere. That sound, that noise was never ever made … ever. And we’re trying to protect that — the Indian as an identity. … we’re starting not to recognize ourselves as human beings. We’re too busy trying to protect the idea of a Native American or an Indian, but we’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people. We’re the human beings.”
-John Trudell
"There is no old way, no new way, there is a way of life. We must live in balance with the earth. We MUST do it. We have no choice....The Earth gives us life, not the American government. The earth gives us life, not the multi-national corporate government. The Earth gives us life, we need to have the Earth. We must have it, otherwise our life will be no more. So we must resist what they do."
-John Trudell
It’s our spiritual responsibility to protect the earth.
many people write poems, maybe even some good ones, maybe even a great one
but others,
they
speak in poetry cry in poetry illuminate in poetry lust in poetry revere in poetry rage in poetry survive in poetry mother in poetry love in poetry critique in poetry dance in poetry inform in poetry grieve in poetry wonder in poetry assassinate in poetry expose in poetry imagine in poetry rebuke in poetry teach in poetry confess in poetry resist in poetry observe in poetry exalt in poetry mock in poetry grow in poetry die in poetry
&
live, and live, and live in poetry
these latter are the poets,
metaphor, verse, and prose entangled in every thought, in every experience, in every act, in every feeling, in every expression, inseparable as breath and air,
whether ever read whether ever recognized whether ever published whether ever paid whether they ever write one poem deemed good by anyone — even themself
poetry is the breath and blood and milk and spit and piss and cum and tears and wine and water and ink and words
Hath finally come the hour when Rengyo will hold fast their growing, arching, golden stem long enough to know, to taste, to touch Lilac’s delicious violet truss?
because, ’til now their Vernal bloom, has in me, conjured only tragic myth the one with the cruelest climate and clock, the tale of an aching, faith-fulled Thisbe, and her yet-untouched, devoted,
anything interesting about her was external to her having never birthed or midwifed anything original, she was a mosaic of willingly received or easily imposed externalities, perfectly squared tessarae arranged into place, adhered in an unremarkable, familiar composition, so very common of her sisterhood her mortar was mixed not with the warmth of cord blood, not with the sweat of work, not with sacred tears, or river water but with an expensive bottled vintage that she bought
she was a surface dweller, invisible to the ancient light or darkness,
both the heights and depths remained beyond her
she was not known as a daughter of Norea, Lilith, Demeter, or Eve
and would not eat of the apple — nor the pomegranate, in this incarnation
but reside and hide within the curated and policed gardens of her kind
she would contentedly remain external to and ignorant of her Self for all her life
“Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book.
For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”
- Boris Pasternak
She was here on Earth,
for now
to nurture a lone patch of milkweed for the last monarchbutterflies looking to land from the fiery skies
to make sure that some stalks of aster and goldenrod remain, entangled and kissing on the day this most brutal World dies
to sweep an old concrete slab every day until blue snakes shed their final skins
to let the crows drink from her mouth a last sip from the great lake,
ISRAEL is perpetrating INDISPUTABLE textbook GENOCIDE in GAZA.
ISRAEL is an uncontrollable, gone-rogue nuclear-state that has not abided any UN resolutions for ceasefire or immediate international humanitarian aid delivery.
ISRAEL has either intentionally targeted or effectively admitted that it cannot control its own military troops after the targeted triple strikes on marked/identifiable and IDF pre-approved World Central Kitchen vehicles — killing 7 multi-national humanitarian aid volunteers. Hence, World Central Kitchen is suspending operations in Gaza, and its ships with 240 tons of remaining food on board for Gaza have departed back to Cyprus.
THE UN must deploy peacekeeping forces.
U.S.-controlled NATO sits on its hands while the atrocities in GAZA are in plain sight for everyone with a screen. The whole World is watching an acute HOLOCAUST of PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
U.S. President Joe BIDEN & U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken unconscionably deny that ISRAEL has committed any WAR CRIMES or CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY — though:
ISRAEL has murdered at least 10,000 PALESTINIAN children in six months’ time.
ISRAEL has murdered at least 9,000 PALESTINIAN women in six months’ time.
ISRAEL has has murdered doctors, nurses, journalists and humanitarian aid workers.
ISRAEL has targeted and destroyed hospitals schools and housing.
ISRAEL has completely destroyed 90% of the hospitals in Gaza.
ISRAEL has committed human horrors — rivaling those of the Nazi SS — at the Al-Shifa Hospital Medical Complex.
ISRAEL is actively and intentionally denying or destroying food aid and destroying fresh water sources and infrastructure. ISRAEL intends to GENOCIDE ONE MILLION PALESTINIAN PEOPLE in GAZA by famine and thirst and denial of medicine and medical and surgical treatment.
ISRAEL has destroyed more than half — possibly up to 80% of structures, infrastructure and land in Gaza. This is a U.S. “Manifest Destiny” playbook dispossession and removal via destruction and genocide. //
U.S. President Joe BIDEN and his administration have forced AMERICANS to directly underwrite this GENOCIDE by using AMERICAN taxpayer dollars to fund ISRAEL’s HOLOCAUST of GAZA with cash and weapons.
the limineen | earthling, poet & crone 