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got 3 new poems in the May/June issue of
@AmPoetryReview
, here’s one of em. big love to the readers and editors at APR for giving these thangs a home.
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a list of people who will be disarmed/targeted by gun control:
- yo Black ass
- my Black ass
- poor people
- revolutionaries
- Black & Brown folks
- anti-imperialists
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what’s a random line of poetry you say aloud or in ya head from time to time unprovoked?
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a poet insulting another poet:
i went into the forest and nobody knew you. not even the wind or the trees
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i’m anti “______ is resistance”. whether it’s art, joy, rest, love, etc. we’re too far removed, gettin reminded daily how unprepared we are for impending crises, to afford any ambiguity or misinterpretation about what must be done.
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a list of people who will not be disarmed/targeted by gun control:
- white militias
- neo nazis
- white people who own gun shops
- pigs
- military
- retired military playing cop
- children of all the above
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studying revolutionary theory and history is important so you know there are people who fought back. that you’re in that lineage. that the government was afraid of how effective they(we) were. that we can build on that legacy. that there’s fires to start, a torch to pick up.
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“i don’t dream of labor”
if you’re hoping for revolution, you must. the work of becoming people who can govern and defend ourselves…the work of antagonizing imperialism…the work of acquiring new skills to contribute to new ways of life. we got all kinds of labor to dream of.
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no better way is coming to us. it will be built, or it won’t be. no revolution has been formed out of inevitability. no empire has been replaced by an egalitarian way of life by a long arc of history’s nonexistent morality. socialism, abolition, must be struggled/organized for.
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if you Black/African and want the pdf of this holla at me.
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it’s ok to swing back at cops.
it’s ok to trip cops mid-stride.
it’s ok to throw things at cops, encouraged even. it’s ok to pull your people back from cops trying to take them into custody. an arrest is an attempt, suggestion, that can be disrupted. these niggas not invincible.
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“survival fund” or “collective aid” or “emergency fund” is often more accurate than “mutual aid” for much of what’s being asked/organized online.
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one for me is:
“you put my heart in the bottom of your shoe / you just walked back to where you hurt" -Ntozake Shange
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the March on Washington was a parade. one with a fire ass lineup of speakers, but absolutely a parade.
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“what is the artist’s job? to make war. the artist’s job is unrelenting war on evil.”
- Amiri Baraka
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gotta let go of the idea that record breaking protests leads to accomplished political objectives. we set records with 2020 actions then elected a vocal advocate of police. then sat on our hands until it was time to blame him for a bipartisan century-long colonial effort.
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we can’t stop genocide, or any single symptom/tactic that capitalist-imperialist states use to expand and protect their interests. when we ask “how do we stop genocide?” the task seems insurmountable. but there is a rich history of people effectively toppling capitalist states.
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"I did not choose not to rest. I was robbed of the possibility of even making that choice by a system that necessitates the maintenance of two things: my (return to) labor, and my perpetual exhaustion."
"What my body-mind truly needs is the fall of empire."
🗣talk that talk!
So, over the last couple months I’ve been writing an essay that I feel especially vulnerable about.
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one thing fasho, two things for certain. we gon see people needlessly suffering and tell oppressors “what you’re doing is evil and wrong, you have to stop” and oppressors gon say “or what?”. we gotta be increasingly prepared to answer that question with action.
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what good is your "remembering who was silent" when you sittin next to them right now and ain't doin shit. antagonize these niggas in real time. agitate the lesson plan you got, the agenda for that event, the conversations with your coworkers.
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when we study the cover that art has provided for cia and fbi meddling/ repression it’s hard to even see these phrases, slogans as anything besides counterinsurgent. they make us think we’re resisting, while capitalism’s economic and social structure remain in tact, unbothered.
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may we never be satisfied until we’re dancing on the ashes of a society that facilitates mass death as a pre-condition for supposed democracy.
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“If it’s a revolution
a lot of people will die.
But it’s an election
& they’re dying already.”
- Brendan Joyce
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much of what we hate/despise about “adulthood” is just capitalism, folks.
we can build something else. we must.
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everybody that posted they line without sayin who it’s from is selfish😂
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"part of neocolonialism, neoliberalism, is to sell your movement back to you in a way in which it does not have feet or teeth."
- Joy James
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i hope the suffering people in your city know who you are and that they can count on you for something in particular. hope your politics don’t only materialize online or in places you don’t live. i hope you’re doing work that antagonizes this empire’s belly. hope you’re busy.
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"When the US government loves the same rappers you love, whose interests are those rappers serving?"
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we really bout to get hit with about 80% of these phrases verbatim come 2024.
(
@Ryan_Ken_Acts
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jazz artists in the Congo, the founding of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, investment in tv/hollywood. the fbi literally has a page on their website for script consultations. these folks are continuously in pursuit and defense of their aims. we have to be that relentless, that clear.
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are the conferences, gatherings, collectives, events, fellowships, workshops, showcases, classes we’re attending getting us closer to understanding who the enemy is? how to win? where our gaps are? or are we becoming more individualistically humane cogs in a dead machine?
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this is important because we can’t just be against the current system. we have to be in favor of and actively building the alternative. otherwise we’ll wage an effective resistance and be no better prepared to govern ourselves. we won’t have become any different in the process.
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ayooo i’m a 2023
@neaarts
Creative Writing Fellow! 🥳🎊 congratulations to my fellow fellows and shoutout to the judges who went to bat for our work.
#innisthang
🕺🏾🎉
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idk…i think many of the radical/revolutionary anestors we hold in high regard would prefer we make serious efforts to consider ourselves their comrades and collaborators…rather than engaging in what amounts to hero worship where we could never measure up to their commitment(s).
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i think it’s past time we lower the bar for what makes a person liberal, and raise the bar for titles of radical/revolutionary.
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we need to get serious. move our analysis away from sectarian identity theatrics. identify what Toni Cade Bambara called “the big enemy”. commit ourselves to lives of struggle, rather than these moral positions where we do “the best we can” in isolation from organized strategy.
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it seems to me the academization(yep all words are made up lol) of poetry involves an overexaggerared "______ is political" or "_____ as resistance" stance. so much so that poets and our poetry have no connection to explicit politics or resistance at all.
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i’m not really even in favor of exemplifying “real resistance”. if we’re serious about ending capitalism then we understand resistance, like rest, like armed struggle, like political education, are just parts and stages in revolutionary change.
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always “there’s no excuse for the looting”.
never “there’s no excuse for the murder”.
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we don’t live in a society where we can effectively love each other. that must be fought for. we should be clear that true dedication to love is to rid the world of capitalist-imperialism. we become whole, human, through dismantling oppressive structures dictating our half-lives.
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there isn’t an answer where we maintain our daily comforts. where things don’t get worse. anti-colonial movements, revolutions have much to teach us about what’s necessary. the first step is identifying the enemy. without that there will always be an excuse, another chance.
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if you’re tired of watching this happen, you’ll organize. you’ll challenge your ideas of what you want to do with your life. you’ll get busy learning what it means to be a revolutionary. otherwise, what you’re actually tired of is the inconvenience to your day to day.
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of course it’s different. working for your people. reaping benefits from that labor. but it is no less work. you look at any people who’ve liberated themselves from oppressors and it was work to struggle, to win, to rebuild. luxury, ease, soft life are capitalist wet dreams.
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resist the urge to exceptionalize biden. this is what it means to be a u.s. president. and every one of them falls in line with varying degrees of explicitness. what does that mean about how we should be spending our time? what we should be working towards?
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revolution is the important marker. all our questions & tactics & preparation should center around what it means to participate in effective protracted revolutionary struggle. in that process we’ll learn rest, love, art, etc. in service/reflection of our revolutionary objectives.
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this poem is making its rounds on IG right now and the most hilariously on brand thing is folks postin it like: "ima still be voting though...". no one saying "ima still organize though". ya dig? like one of the issues is that our only method or language for "change" is ballots.
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if we don't organize to take revolutionary control of our future(land, economic infrastructure, resources, defense, identities, etc.), then it makes no difference whether empire is in decline or decay because we'll be subject to the will of the next iteration.
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the Black Joy-ification of revolutionary potential from Spring-Fall 2020 was somethin else…it should be catalogued.
Here’s an example of what an acceptable peaceful protest looks like in America:
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dialectics, baby.
read: We Are Our Own Liberators
by Jalil Muntaqim
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these acts aren’t being carried out because of hate. they’re carried out because they are beneficial economically, politically, and socially to a group of people. hate is just lucrative cover for economic, land/resource-based exploitation.
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if the thing you doin right now doesn’t have a year-long strategy at least, question its utility & adjust. we’ve got to get dissatisfied with periodic flares in political involvement.
from Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. the “Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity” chapter.
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a system that has the capacity for legislation like this is not redeemable.
BREAKING: Arkansas has become the first state to ban health care for trans youth.
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this is not Birthday font.
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you should prepare yourself best you can when attending actions where cops are likely to show. the more of us prepared in those moments, the less arrests, attacks, etc. the safer we all are. the more probable it is demands will be met.
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my venting about “role of the artist” has turned into workshops, talks, and presentations(not gigs or jobs). i’m glad people find use in these obsessive ramblings that used to live in my head and a trusted friend’s inbox. love to the elders/ancestors who made it plain.
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“the ppl all over the world hate the amerikkkan people…and what is pathetic about it is that you don’t even know why they hate you and you think they shouldn’t be hating you…they have every reason to be hating you because you are irresponsible to humanity.”
- Kwame Ture(1979)
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best way to defend the legacy of the Black Panther Party is to build tangible programs. point to the org you’re part of and how y’all are materially addressing whatever errors, or building on the positives of the Panthers. otherwise what good is all this talkin?
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don’t do this baby name and face like y’all did Breonna...i beg.
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let our hopelessness match our actual efforts. have we struggled enough to be tired or are we just sick of witnessing? let’s give revolutionary struggle a try. get into some ideologically aligned coordinated actions with intentions to strike at the heart, and not at a symptom.
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there’s nothing like seeing how ill-prepared they are for organized resistance/defense to remind you they just humans. humans who made a poor choice to be pigs(i.e. sacrificed their humanity).
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if we don’t arrive at revolutionary commitments and objectives, we’ll be back here in another decade or so. unspeakable acts, mass slaughter, media cover-ups while more bombs drop…this is what the u.s. is always involved in. the call is clear. only question is if we’ll answer.
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holla for a pdf of this Toni Cade Bambara interview that includes her famously misquoted “role of the artist” response.
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if any of our outrage, lamentations for martyrs is to be taken seriously then disrupting imperialism will become our daily task. how many more chances to fund, facilitate, perpetuate genocide does a country get before its population’s consciences grow legs, and fists, and boots.
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and worse, that we can all acknowledge the thing we're doing isn't working, hasn't worked, that we're being lied to, and still be like "but what else ima do?". which is really just a testament to the success of colonial propaganda.
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imprecise language has limited our ability to identify who the enemy is. such that we think a better way will fall out of the sky. or materialize from the beauty in our speech. we need to be crystal clear about the work ahead. especially as imperialism continues its adaptation.
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Black Liberation Army veterans wrote hundreds, if not thousands, of pages about what is to be done. where to pick up the torch. all we have to do is get serious and committed. there isn’t an answer to this that you can post or call or tweet out. it’s gonna be a struggle.
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if you are anti-zionist(as you should be) you are also(and must be) anti-amerikkka. this is a truth we should hold in the front of our minds as u.s. cultural institutions reinforce/defend their colonial values and interests.
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i saw a post that mentioned biden’s invite to morehouse being disresepectful to the Black radical tradition. besides their affiliation with (former) students who would come to adopt or contribute to revolutionary politics…have hbcus ever been part of the Black Radical Tradition?
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we have to build the foundations for our unity. otherwise we’ll keep gettin knocked down in isolation lamenting how bad things are. the unglamor of becoming the kind of people that have something substantial to offer the next generation to struggle with is our work.
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capitalism is literally anti-human. that’s why your boss works you to literal death. and companies can hold vacant buildings, homes, and structure while folks brave winter in tents or less. and why you can’t put a “good person” at the helm because the ship’s engine runs on blood.
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without organized formations we can’t build on momentum, apply lessons of the past 3-5 years, coordinate strategy and tactics in our locales, etc. i hope we all get serious before things are as bad as they can get. before it’s too late and we lookin around for someone to save us.
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not sure what that celebrity gon have to do or say for folks to accept she don’t give af about you. about us. curious about the use of posting continued “disappointment” if it doesn’t follow any change in commitment or action. that flag was a genocidal symbol before oct. 7th.
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i fear we’ve used “systemic” to the point of meaninglessness. where people acknowledge oppression operates as a system but don’t move to naming the particular system it operates inside of. or let “white supremacy” be the system rather than capitalism/imperialism.
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we need sober clarity and serious commitment to overturning the systems that facilitate these shadows we keep swinging at. it’ll help you assess moments with optimism grounded in history. what’s to be done is right in front of us. if only we’d stop reaching backwards.
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“need i remind
anyone again that
armed struggle
is an act of love
…
so who are they who say
no more love poems
i want to sing a song of love
for the woman who blasted the boers
out of that yard across the border
and lived long enough to tell it”
- Keorapetse Kgositsile
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“the left” here doesn’t exist. let’s start there. folks out here loosely aligning themselves with theoretical beliefs with no material action. divorced from organizations and people they can point to outside that they struggle alongside.
theory 🔁practice.
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if we don’t accept our L. we gonna keep takin em. if we can be honest about the ineptness of our continuous non-strategy we might reset and build one. we are unable to form an effective challenge to politicians facilitating genocide on our dime. this didn’t work…what might?
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Stop letting pacifists lie about what happened with South Africa. BDS was a fraction of the equation. The military defeat in Angola to the Anti Apartheid African forces (supported by Cuba militarily) did the heavy damage.
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hope we as poets can collectively get up out of our “i don’t have the answers but i hope humans do better tomorrow” bag and start choosing sides again. bring that sharp sloppy shit. that well thought out stance/vision. bring something more than humane complication to genocide.
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there is no consideration of artist’s commitments. no charge for them to speak to the condition of their people. i think we’re so distanced we don’t even see ourselves as one people anymore. there seems to be more unified connection to representation than to improving our lives.
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if we gon free the land we gotta
know what to do wit it👨🏾🌾🌻
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