Wednesday, June 2, 2021

alternative thoughts

 Workers Unite, strike

Against the plutocratic state
Take back their power to create
Wealth
 
 
 
What can police do
with their time instead
of committing crimes against
the communities they are
paid to serve?
How about being witness to
averse interactions in which
to intervene?
How about presence that adds
to the calculus against doing
wrong when it won’t go unseen?
How about preventing extreme
behaviors by listening  to
neighbors’ concerns, turning a
caring eye to devalue violence?
How about trading silence for
transparency, accountability,
social justice – not us and them?
Understand it’s not about
petty pride, angry entitlement.
This is about humanity’s
historic striving to find true
sanity,
what some call kindness.
 
 
6/1-2/21

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