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The Kids Table
Can you believe this shit! I can’t Can you believe these people! The thieves and liars and tyrants and crooks You’re not one of them, are you? Are you one of them? Is this your fault? This is your fault! YOU! YOU! -Pause- Adults look up and inhale deeply, perhaps the mistake is realized perhaps…
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A VOTING Hippo Crit!
Whatever you do… If you VOTE today do not use it as an excuse to be finished and stick your sticker proudly as if the goal is to wear a sticker on your lapel. If you VOTE today do not celebrate the act alone as if it’s a final chapter as if the book can…
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Screaming at Demons
You’re screaming at animals you’re berating the non-beratables you’re inspiring violence because you’re jabbing the monster because you don’t think it’s a monster because you’re seeing yourself but it’s not you sitting there sitting there it’s not you sitting there upon the throne it’s not you in the great halls. You’re putting your faith and…
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What if I’m right
I can be like the river I am like the river I have that available to me But who wants to be a river When you can be right? Certainly not me. We’ve had to make ourselves so small So we can understand what is not understandable. Zoom in. Zoom in. Zoom in. Smaller, smaller,…
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Reporting for Duty
Reporting for duty Makes me a good man It’s not the duty It’s the reporting What a life Without a heart And without a feeling We are missing What a life We think we know And all of it without a heart And reaching And teaching Without a heart And reporting for duty Without a…
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A Young Boy Amidst The Din And Papers Of The World
And even as he wonders if that is all there is He knows it can’t be true because he is alive.
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The Power Of Humans
Two people loved each other It was clear and true between them They did not understand what hurt meant They did not know it was possible They lived, in love. There was a person who was afraid Why? We do not know And, for now, it doesn’t matter This person knows hurt is possible They…
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I know you
I know you. I’ve been in the deep, dark with you, I remember because you stayed at the entrance of the cave even though it was your idea to come explore in the first place. I know you. I’ve heard you brag. I’ve seen you get offended and be wrong and get offended again. I…
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Dear terrified people with white skin
Chill. (dear black people…thanks for introducing such a cool concept as “chillin’”) Chill. The institution is abuzz with activity, just listen to it hum. You can almost taste the creativity when you’re suckin’ on your thumb. Who is the first to proclaim they know who is the first to start the show who is the…
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What is Patriarchy
I don’t understand this word the way you understand it. Speeding trains of indignation and righteousness blur by. This train doesn’t stop for me. I’m not sure this train stops for anyone. But who is driving and where did it come from? It’s so disgusting, like the foulest smell to hear and see excuses, I…
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Royales
It’s the Royalty disease. A little known but widely held dysfunction that puts oneself above the rest, without regard for oneself. Like sawing off the connection to others to punish them. The ever present “I”. The damage and the healing of the world is in direct relation to our own experience of the ever present…
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True Greed
Break it down Corporation shoveling money into themselves and what? It dissolves? Give me some of that money but not as much as you I don’t need as much as you I’m better then you Give me some of that money I don’t need as much as you I don’t know where it comes from…
LYNCH 