a blossom
smoke to the ceiling
pieces of skull
everyone should just collapse
run their emptiness into the soil
choke on asphalt
they found a girl whilst trawling the seabed
plastic wrapped round her neck so tightly it tore off her head when they tried to remove it
sometimes oil flows out of our taps and we bathe in death
nobody questions it
nobody questions anything.
Jun 18, 2016
Jun 18, 2016 at 8:03 PM UTC
a blossom
smoke to the ceiling
pieces of skull
everyone should just collapse
run their emptiness into the soil
choke on asphalt
they found a girl whilst trawling the seabed
plastic wrapped round her neck so tightly it tore off her head when they tried to remove it
sometimes oil flows out of our taps and we bathe in death
nobody questions it
nobody questions anything.
11:44am, June 19th 2016
Three men ***** a twelve year old girl in Canada and the judge blamed her for it.
This world is ******* disgusting.
Everyone stands around talking about global warming, inequality, systemic racism, ****** violence, imperialism, then we go on with our stupid lives, imbibing media that perpetuates these discourses because hah ******* hah oppression is such a joke, let's all laugh at **** and race-based ****** We purchase goods produced in countries crippled through both military and economic impositions, where the workers commit suicide daily because of how ******* **** their lives are. We pour detergent down the drains because clean dishes are more important than the entire ocean's ecosystem. We place our lives in the hands of authority figures, trusting them to sort things out, when across historical time, it's been those in power who've been the most resistant towards change. Oh, because we don't have time to get involved, because politics is boring, because life is hard enough as it is.
We are privileged as **** and we are all complicit in the suffering of others.
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