into October

moving meditation because life is movement

 

 

 

People react (often horribly) to pain,

rage, loneliness, feeling we don’t matter,

have no power to automatically understand

how to defend against unknown unknowns

that stab us from behind.

ab-reaction

 

 

 

My private little life is

mine, it’s fine, it’s me.

 

 

 

This tribe of belonging we crave

makes us create that subconscious

magic of translation

denial of the truth of connection

 

 

 

It’s not about identity divisions

(we each and all have identities – a multitude)

it’s about power, what we don’t have when it

counts economically

we’re talking about the slavery of held down poor.

And the real possibility to overrule powerlessness,

each our own, is to gather together around

our common oppressors, those who try to keep

our fight among ourselves.

 

 

 

Call me Cassandra – no matter how loudly

I scream, all anyone hears is madness.

 

 

 

Entertainment

socialization on screen

dramatic programming

intimate plays we engage

with these people our script

made up to be old friends

Minor supporting roles dismissed

with ease.

She’s not one of ours, so her horrible

fate but a plot device to move along.

 

 

We do disservice,

in fact cause dissolution of our

necessary unity to succeed in our

social projects, to label what are

metaphorically fan clubs

as tribes.

We can each be loyal and active

fans of many different teams, ideas,

places, people, passions – intersecting or not.

These false tribes are not identities.

Our identities are multiple, some say “legion”

-- and completely individual.

 

 

People who see “woman” rather than

perceiving me are wrong.

Why encourage such blindness by

allowing their shrinking of my identity?

 

 

Poor, ignorant because ignored children

band together, throw slings and arrows 

to be heard.

 

 

Feeling self-worth is not about awards,

force praise, but a model of respect, appreciation.

 

 

 

You know nothing about me, nor I about you

other than our assumptions based on what we

believe we see each other say.

The question:  Do we wish to learn where we each

find context, or prefer to live within what we

assume?

 

 

 

I hate intimately.

Not for some difference in perceived idenity

-- for hurt you do to me of your own free will.

 

 

 

9/24-10/1/18