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+Art-ACT UP (America)
We now know
What’s it's like
To feel
So passionately
About something
(A belief
Not a person-
That's so
Pedestrian/
Passé,
Tedious, uninvolving,
Antithesis to progressive)
That you are
Willing to
act up
Over it
^
As a child
(Who could
Make herself
Vomit on command-
/You sure
You wanna fuck that?/
When our Uncle
Dropped off
At preschool;
I was a fool-
“Don’t make me do it”
Blahhhhhhhhhhh
/Dead of winter
With the
Gray wool coat
Affixed to the
Silver badge-
5-point star
Issued to
Kids with parents:
Fraternal order of police/
(Dad-Sergeant for the city)
^
And the
Power
Of dormant
Susceptibility-
Outburst
Was fitting
Me
For something
Much
Larger
In the age
Of an
Epidemic/
Pandemic-
HIV
That had
Already
Killed
So many
Of us off
And uhm
Legislators
Are sitting on it
Because
It’s not their
Loved ones/
(Doesn’t mean it won’t be: one day; life is tricky)
But that is
Somebody’s
Child
Out there.
Nothing to you
But something
To someone.
And I can now
Only remember
Seeing the
Blood/paint
Human murals
Sometimes
With the
White chalk lines
In the newspaper;
Speaking about
Radical tactics
(With all the spectators)
Wondering
What all the
Noise
Was about|
Then I woke up;
A bruise
In the middle
Of the floor.
#kriya yogi/ mala beads should’ve tipped
#trained by some of the finest
#breath control/ temperature regulate
#gay men carried
#For the lesbians
#some bug chasers
#chasing HIV
#for housing
#all for some fucking affordable housing
#my god what times are/were these
#who are the animals; those who do it or those who sustain it?
#community secrets-lesser known
#welcome to America
#3rd world for some of us
(This was back then so I don't even wanna know what's going on now)
What’s it's like
To feel
So passionately
About something
(A belief
Not a person-
That's so
Pedestrian/
Passé,
Tedious, uninvolving,
Antithesis to progressive)
That you are
Willing to
act up
Over it
^
As a child
(Who could
Make herself
Vomit on command-
/You sure
You wanna fuck that?/
When our Uncle
Dropped off
At preschool;
I was a fool-
“Don’t make me do it”
Blahhhhhhhhhhh
/Dead of winter
With the
Gray wool coat
Affixed to the
Silver badge-
5-point star
Issued to
Kids with parents:
Fraternal order of police/
(Dad-Sergeant for the city)
^
And the
Power
Of dormant
Susceptibility-
Outburst
Was fitting
Me
For something
Much
Larger
In the age
Of an
Epidemic/
Pandemic-
HIV
That had
Already
Killed
So many
Of us off
And uhm
Legislators
Are sitting on it
Because
It’s not their
Loved ones/
(Doesn’t mean it won’t be: one day; life is tricky)
But that is
Somebody’s
Child
Out there.
Nothing to you
But something
To someone.
And I can now
Only remember
Seeing the
Blood/paint
Human murals
Sometimes
With the
White chalk lines
In the newspaper;
Speaking about
Radical tactics
(With all the spectators)
Wondering
What all the
Noise
Was about|
Then I woke up;
A bruise
In the middle
Of the floor.
#kriya yogi/ mala beads should’ve tipped
#trained by some of the finest
#breath control/ temperature regulate
#gay men carried
#For the lesbians
#some bug chasers
#chasing HIV
#for housing
#all for some fucking affordable housing
#my god what times are/were these
#who are the animals; those who do it or those who sustain it?
#community secrets-lesser known
#welcome to America
#3rd world for some of us
(This was back then so I don't even wanna know what's going on now)
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