Tag: nationalism
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Discrimination (A poem)
Discrimination is in every act of perception, so we’ve been told, it’s something we’re scared of, because that’s what we’ve been sold. How can we see the uniqueness in anything without this discriminating quality? Why do we run, why do we run, we give them the power, like a gun. We preach individuality. Lost in…
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Birch Grove
There’s a birch grove on the banks of a stream. Trickling. In the Cascadia valley. They are a little crooked. With shallow roots, soft wood, susceptible to blade and fire. On the western side, a yellow immigrant mold blooms near the blackened cankers sunken in the fleshy bark. It may seem foreign, but really, it…
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People of this Earth
We are the people of this earth secure in ourselves and building walls, everyone is just building walls to barricade ourselves secure in our nameless, shameless faces building walls; building walls; we keep on building walls to keep ourselves safe (thinking; this is my ground, maybe this is my ground, baby this is my ground)…