slouching toward bethlehem

i resist stirring, opening my eyes, or thinking

as the dog wakes, and waits

i am in the center of another dawn-dream,
on the precipice of
experiencing some thing, of understanding some thing

but it cannot hold,

evaporating
with every
slouch toward consciousness

i open my eyes to
the grey of the room, to the dark white gyre of the sky through these generous windows
i open my ears
to the beat
of crystals pummeling these generous windows,
once and again, realizing
i possess slow thighs,
heavy lungs, a heavier heart,
an entire weighted mass,
and a mind — less than half-known / half-known

i want to re-bury myself in the warm sands of sleep, the enveloping weightless numb
and drift back to
the liminal/

this must be the
feeling
of the fully-gestated
unborn fetus, warm,
quiet, still
waiting to be born
yet resisting being known, moving on

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Self-possessed: Mona Frida Warhol


There’s a simple term for the look in Frida Kahlo’s eyes: self-possession.

The gaze is not that of the (putatively male, white) viewer looking inwards. It is her own. She’s the one who does the looking. Her preternaturally long neck holds her head completely still and completely erect so that the eyes are front and centre. 

But it’s important to remember that Kahlo didn’t become iconic. She created herself, quite literally, as an icon. The process is one she controlled. Though it’s not a comparison I’ve encountered in art history, Kahlo seems to me to be, among other things, a precursor of Warhol. Her images seem to be made for mass reproduction.

Fintan O’Toole, writing for the Irish Times


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contemplating intent, consent, kill lists and ceasefire: deer hunting season, regular firearm, November 15 – 30, 2024 Michigan, U.S.


“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”

Arthur Schopenhauer.


a white-tailed deer drinks from a bird bath,
which was presumed to be of exclusive use of songbirds — especially, eastern bluebirds,
on the land the author occupies
Halloween 2024
“all treatery, no trickery”

Regular firearm, deer hunting season began yesterday in Michigan, United States of America, and the crack of rifles and the blast of shotguns destroy both peace and life.

There is some version of a legalized, defined kill list or belated, legalized “protection list” for nearly every non-human animal being population on Earth. And, for human animal being populations on Earth too.

What defines murder for human beings, of the human animal body?

INTENT.

All Hunting is INTENT – intent to kill.

All animal “livestock” agriculture is INTENT — intent to kill for profit.

Genocide is INTENT.

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birth, the morning eve of november ides, northern hemisphere

the sky is divided crisply into
white and blue in the East
but in the far Southeast,
rather, the far Eastsouth
a golden slit opens
from aural gradations of pink

a cosmic vulva, one, among millions, billions?
birthing an ordinary, extraordinary morning

no pushing, no bearing down, no pain

that’s how easy
birthing once was

parthogenetiXally,

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Brunching Whilst the New Rome Burns

oh, these [neo]liberals
they love to be seen,
what’s the point of excess everything
if you ain’t seen by The Peers™️ or The Poors™️



they tell us we are unfortunates or degenerates, ambitionless, uneducated, lazy: we, mere mothers, workers, poors, caregivers, included with “the deplorables” — lumped together in the unmelting trash pot of America

“our” consumption has created islands of plastic in the Pacific ocean
and the dunes of clothing in the Chilean desert
our thoughtless, lowbrow Walmart and Target tastes,
our holiday shopping, and aspirational Disney World, Pigeon Forge, or Vegas vacations — our rare and short-lived “joy” until the credit card is full and the bill arrives / we don’t get to savor the memories — our joy quickly mutates into anxiety, over-time hours, debt, pain

whilst every single day — is their windfall, every day is their holiday,

their screens open to the financial page bookmarks first thing in the morning followed by local crime, never white-collared, though — never to poverty, hunger, oppression, genocide:

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HOW DID CRAZY HORSE VOTE ? — Joffre Stewart


Pamphlet written, published and distributed by Joffre Stewart


HOW DID CRAZY HORSE VOTE? vers. 2024

a posthumous collab with Joffre Stewart, most respectfully & reverently

Which party would be better for Israel?
Red or Blue?
Trick Question!
Both, that’s who!

Which party would be better for The People?
Red or Blue?
Trick Question!
Both, hate you!

Did CRAZY HORSE vote his Lakota People out of Dispossession and Genocide?

Did BLACK PEOPLE vote themselves out of Enslavement and American Apartheid?

Did WOMEN vote themselves IRREVOCABLE Equal and Reproductive Rights?

Have the SOLUTIONS to human dispossession, oppression ever been secured at the polls
with votes of RED or BLUE?

LISTEN:

REVOLUTION has been the ONLY DURABLE AMERICAN SOLUTION.

Yet, childlike, playing at history,

& with the future

You color some ovals, You check a box,

And, deny this

TRUTH.

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