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The System
All of these men saying that if these were regular men they’d be in prison I had to leave my home when I was three father showed up with a gun when he found my sister, mother, and me, kidnapped my sister and me, the police did nothing, because he technically had custody, had family… Read more
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Mexico
I was in my thirties, when I learned that depending on where you were, they call wars different things, In America, we have a war called the Mexican American War, the war for Texas, and I, well I am simply an Irish American woman with only a vague understanding of it all, but I think… Read more
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California
Think of only happy thoughts something to make you smile absolutely nothing is wrong everything is fine my town looks the same it’s fine, it’s fine, it’s fine I do not wake up panicking I don’t live there anymore my state is fine nothing is fine I still have old classmates there and I wake… Read more
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How it happens
It’s the friend that saw it happen at a party and said nothing It’s the bouncer at the club that knows their history and still allows them entry the employer who keeps them hired even though they have the reports in their HR desk It’s the cops that didn’t lock them up the first time… Read more
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Influencer
Influencer what is that a snake-oil salesman selling words, products, themselves, an ideology whatever you want from me all for a dollar it’s a talent, they say is it, really? stand still, look pretty, say what they want you to say I speak, I exist, and I have people telling me to delete myself I… Read more
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Speak Now
You know, the first thing America did was not believe a black woman, they accused her of witchcraft, all because she wasn’t like them, and when she wouldn’t say what they wanted, they tortured her until she agreed to what they said, and they teach the witch trials as a silly, hysterical thing, but our… Read more
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Nothing new
This is nothing new, slave, serf, vessel, employee, parishioner, the terms have changed, but the game has not, we’ll take a piece of you, again and again, and you’ll worship us in the end, and thank us for the trouble, in taxes, in blood, in honor and glory, we’ll stomp on your corpses, from our… Read more
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Off with their heads
And what is the point of being a good girl if they only look at you as an incubator and not a real person someone to get off from I do not have to look I can’t stop this is not my tragedy I can look away But in a way it is and every… Read more