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"patriarchy" poems
Sister who conceived was thrown outta the nunnery This disgrace fed the top feeds hence. Shunning all her exemplary works at once. But where did the well-read ladies lose reference? THE BOOK had revealed it all right there, But when history repeated itself... with just a track from heaven missing And so this mother raised a fatherless child. But in history when the father was a Carpenter. Here in time the father was a Father Who continued to raise "patriarchy" on the altar!
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Oct 21, 2016
Oct 21, 2016 at 3:47 PM UTC
"Dis-Grace"
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 11:14 AM UTC
The fire this time
Every time people start to rise up, a whole buncha problematic mess gets thrown around regarding VIOLENCE. So, what is "violence" really?... It's the use of force. Plain and simple. What makes folks uncomfortable (who are otherwise comfortable in this system) is that UPRISING IS A SOMETIMES VIOLENT (read: forceful) REACTION TO SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE: Yes, just like the Hunger Games... Thus, there are many types of violence... The fact that we are paying taxes that are funding the genocide and ****** of people of color (here and abroad) is violence. People with guns (former slave patrols and overseers, now cops) who come from outside our community and treat our folks as criminals on the daily is violence. Capitalism, i.e. wage/property/ecology-based exploitation in the name of profit is violence. The fact that LA County spends more $$ than anywhere in the world on prisons and police is violence. The fact that the US locks up more of its own people than any other country on record is violence. US aiding/funding the genocide of Palestinians at the hands of Israel is genocidal violence. From Congress, to the boardrooms, to the classrooms, from the gaze, to the unwanted touching, to the **** to the pay, Patriarchy everyday, is violence. A few people jacking some **** at Walmart or breaking a window is really minimal violence in comparison. A couple people throwing **** at armed cops is not serious violence. The idea of owning property that other must rent to live is violent. Systemic, chronic, global insecurity in the form of material poverty is violence. Wage slavery is violence. Gentrification is violence. The War On Youth, i.e. the School-to-Prison pipeline, and, thus the War-on-Drugs with its attending 76% recidivism rate in the prison-industrial complex, whose populations are disproportionately black males, is violence. The fact that people can't go to the doctor and dentist, or eat food every day is violence. Deportations are violence. Homophobia is violence. The world's largest global military that vaporizes people without due process in dozens of countries violating their biophysical and national sovereignty is violence. The United States government sanctioning the ****** of non-white, but especially Muslim bodies across the world... is violence. So, when you condemn violence, do you mean resistance? Because there is a whole lot of violence you should be condemning instead. Adapted from Emilio Lacques-Zapien
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The last kiss from you Lasted like a huddle in The snow blitz Rocking my anatomy In the frosty glitz The last words from you That barged in my eardrum You were in a hurry To smell a new leaf Draped in a diamond dew The last gifts from you Was an instrument Which still I use To recognize people Or to refuse! The last time You said I love you I remember I was laughing Hysterically as if I was watching Jared Leto’s jaded mimicry of Joker in YouTube Intriguingly, when the last time I saw you **** It felt like pretty Ivanka’s embarrassment Noticing her dad is a lewd The last time I was chatting With you on Facebook I was wondering why I shouldn't hack your account? To check your inbox Yea, it was filled with the message of ******* F- Bombs, **** shaming and tagging you as harlot All they were asking was your service of escort Either in full discount or in hefty cash drops! The last time I wrote A letter of love to you I discovered my Keyboard Began to blurt out No more, No more, No more… The last time I had a chit-chat With you in the Burger King or Pizza Hut I listened to your hissing clack-clack That someone else has become your puppy cat… The last time I became sick When I was with you I heard you threw a party Where you were whispering To your besties, how I become your double whammy! The last time I was With you in the bed I felt like I was indentured To **** a dummy toy Sans spirit and flesh! Loving you was like Santa Claus gifted me With a Pandora’s Box As soon as I opened it You decided to release Our *** tape of your having ****** In pornhub’s forum of interracial! The last time I heard of you Is that you were giving an interview To The Cosmopolitan’s board of review Facing the barrage of inquisitions You calmly joked, the series Of latest uproar about you In the social media or Internet Is because certain people always Love to rave about Women’s body Shoving in and out of their pigeonhole With their one night stand queen trophy To flavor your form in their fantasmic mouth You also smirked in a raspy voice Defiantly declaring “we (women) Have been locked indoors With no air, no food, no water” My last boyfriend is also no exception He certainly thinks I came this far Through ******* and deception
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:33 PM UTC
Oppressive patriarchy or self-imposed victim hood- Hasan Maruf
The last kiss from you Lasted like a huddle in The snow blitz Rocking my anatomy In the frosty glitz The last words from you That barged in my eardrum You were in a hurry To smell a new leaf Draped in a diamond dew The last gifts from you Was an instrument Which still I use To recognize people Or to refuse! The last time You said I love you I remember I was laughing Hysterically as if I was watching Jared Leto’s jaded mimicry of Joker in YouTube Intriguingly, when the last time I saw you **** It felt like pretty Ivanka’s embarrassment Noticing her dad is a lewd The last time I was chatting With you on Facebook I was wondering why I shouldn't hack your account? To check your inbox Yea, it was filled with the message of ******* F- Bombs, **** shaming and tagging you as harlot All they were asking was your service of escort Either in full discount or in hefty cash drops! The last time I wrote A letter of love to you I discovered my Keyboard Began to blurt out No more, No more, No more… The last time I had a chit-chat With you in the Burger King or Pizza Hut I listened to your hissing clack-clack That someone else has become your puppy cat… The last time I became sick When I was with you I heard you threw a party Where you were whispering To your besties, how I become your double whammy! The last time I was With you in the bed I felt like I was indentured To **** a dummy toy Sans spirit and flesh! Loving you was like Santa Claus gifted me With a Pandora’s Box As soon as I opened it You decided to release Our *** tape of your having ****** In pornhub’s forum of interracial! The last time I heard of you Is that you were giving an interview To The Cosmopolitan’s board of review Facing the barrage of inquisitions You calmly joked, the series Of latest uproar about you In the social media or Internet Is because certain people always Love to rave about Women’s body Shoving in and out of their pigeonhole With their one night stand queen trophy To flavor your form in their fantasmic mouth You also smirked in a raspy voice Defiantly declaring “we (women) Have been locked indoors With no air, no food, no water” My last boyfriend is also no exception He certainly thinks I came this far Through ******* and deception
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The invisible scar Of the patriarchy Hangs over us Masked by the shadows of tradition Concealed within Dazzling bursts of color Billowing skirts And spirited dancing Hot acid flung Scathing, searing, scalding Because weak men Cannot handle rejection Wed the one you love And bring shame Upon the family Honor killings Does ****** Bring Dignity? #JusticeforNirbhaya #JusticeforAsifa And now #JusticeforAiman Our only crime Is being female Yet fingers are still pointed At us At the length of our dresses At the makeup on our faces At the way we smiled How long Until we are finally fed up With a society That would rather A corpse Over a girl?
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May 19, 2019
May 19, 2019 at 12:07 PM UTC
Patriarchy
You have no idea What it's like, to be a woman Everyday is a baptism by fire As she walks on the street Hundred hands appear From nowhere, as if conjured By a deft flick Of a magician's wand A magician who sends chills Down the length of her spine Chills that surpass even those On a wintry night in Antarctica Leaving her frozen Till every bone stands still As she is stripped of her dignity Reduced to a shadow of her self She strains every sinew in her throat As she sends out a distress signal Which fails to be intercepted As the people look on Some with fear Some with sheer indifference Some with a perverse interest But none answer the call of duty The call which is as basic As the need for oxygen You have no idea What it's like, to be a woman As she heads home Seeking much needed solace She is instead upbraided For wearing a short skirt For walking alone in the night For not being a lady As she fails to get support From the family she holds dear As a shipwreck survivor Barely floating in freezing waters Clings on to that piece of wood Her self-esteem nosedives Like that fateful Air India flight That crashed at Mangalore And shifts the blame onto herself For not understanding the men Who've brought her to this state And succumbs to Stockholm Syndrome Completing a vicious circle Leaving men and the patriarchy winners Winners who deserve the title As much as a student Who clears his trimesters Using bits of paper Tucked neatly inside his shoes
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Oct 30, 2017
Oct 30, 2017 at 1:20 AM UTC
You have no idea What it's like, to be a woman
Gender is just an invention by society I'm a strong independent black woman and I don't need no man Oprah Michelle Obama Yoga Pants Hilary Clinton Breast Milk
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Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 5:06 AM UTC
Down With The Patriarchy, Up With Tomato Soup
Oh! Rama! Oh! Rama,”reme ithi rama” (Makes us happy so Rama!) Here, mourn and sigh Ahalyas In every atom of rocky hearts Of India; as Sahasralingas spy. Ambush, spring on praying preys. Rushi Gauthams suspicious curse In repentance they bless retribution. Oh! Rama, with your soft feet touch, Liberate the poor pious chaste Ahalyas, Sathi, Savitri, Seetha and Panchali,O! Sultana Raziya, Jhansi Rani ,Indira Gandhi, Think of their vicissitudes, the path they tread! Patriarchy exerts pressure on Matriarchy, O!Mum! Bharat matha is molested by Kuberas and Mamons. And her daughters are robbed and ***** ruthlessly, alas! Oh! Rama,”Dharma Samsthanardhaya “come with dirge Of the degenerated culture of Vultures, save thy women folk. Make people to think right, to follow right path, to tell true words. To live in Eeman (Dharma) not to inflict pain to other co-habitants. Without negative there is no use of positive, so is woman and man. They are like protons and electrons to the flux of family life peaceful. Oh! Rama , teach, Dharmorakshati Rakshita:,”repentance gives retribution That will bring peace, progress, stability, justice and unity; not Pax Romana
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM UTC
Oh!Rama!
Oh! Rama! Oh! Rama,”reme ithi rama” (Makes us happy so Rama!) Here, mourn and sigh Ahalyas In every atom of rocky hearts Of India; as Sahasralingas spy. Ambush, spring on praying preys. Rushi Gauthams suspicious curse In repentance they bless retribution. Oh! Rama, with your soft feet touch, Liberate the poor pious chaste Ahalyas, Sathi, Savitri, Seetha and Panchali,O! Sultana Raziya, Jhansi Rani ,Indira Gandhi, Think of their vicissitudes, the path they trod! Patriarchy exerts pressure on Matriarchy, O!Mum! Bharat matha is molested by Kuberas and Mammons. And her daughters are robbed and ***** ruthlessly, alas! Oh! Rama,”Dharma Samsthapanardhaya “come with dirge Of the degenerated culture of Vultures, save thy women folk. Make people to think right, to follow right path, to tell true words. To live in Eeman (Dharma) not to inflict pain to other co-habitants. Without negative there is no use of positive, so is woman and man. They are like protons and electrons to the flux of family life peaceful. Oh! Rama , teach, Dharmorakshati Rakshita:,”repentance gives retribution That will bring peace, progress, stability, justice and unity; not “Pax Romana”..
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 6:03 AM UTC
Oh!Rama
70 years of supposed independence Yet no real freedom for women In a society dominated by men Drowned, is a woman's voice We need Azadi from Patriarchy Money and power aren't everything Without love, life is nothing Above all, are relationships and life quality Is there no end to **** Why is marital **** legal? Our system is so feudal Marriage is such a shame Marred by domestic violence Divorce, a traumatic experience No freedom to choose her career Family is supposed to be better No freedom for inter-religious marriage If she does, it's labelled Love Jihad Frankly, we are tired Demand an end to this carnage She can dress as she pleases She can roam at night She can marry anyone she loves To question her, you have no right
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Aug 17, 2017
Aug 17, 2017 at 10:15 AM UTC
We need Azadi from Patriarchy
In society, Women are always told they are too much. Too angry, too calm Too quiet, too loud Too big, too small And we are all of these things We are angry. Angry about the internalized oppression that still flows on a day to day basis. We are angry about our predefined roles of what girl is, what girl should be. And we are too calm. Calm about the man that called you a name in the street and all you wanted to do was cry Or the teacher that told you you couldn't do what you wanted because it was a mans place, not a woman's You should have yelled, but you didn't. Because we are too calm. We are too quiet. We are silenced. Our opinions are ranked of worthiness by our physical features, our body types. Our intelligence is last to our ****** appeal. We can not be heard through the babble of social media judging and critiquing and pointing out our flaws. So we are quiet. And we are loud. We have the ability to speak for the world. To weave the revolution out of the words of women. We have the voice to speak to our sisters globally, teach women that we are loud. We can drown out prejudice with the power of voice and bring down the barrier of how a girl should be. We are small. Told that our personalities are preset by the gender normalities that the patriarchy has placed, we are shrunk to fit our predefined roles. They cut us into shapes so we can not realize that we are so much bigger. Because we are big. We are huge. We have global impact. While we are cut down, I would like to see us glue each other back together. I want to see women take back our voices. I want to hear women all over the world speak how they feel, bust through the barriers of what the patriarchy has told them. Fight back against their rapists, abusers, silencers. When someone tells you that you are being too much, say "I am. And I am becoming so much more."
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 9:34 PM UTC
We Are
In society, Women are always told they are too much. Too angry, too calm Too quiet, too loud Too big, too small And we are all of these things We are angry. Angry about the internalized oppression that still flows on a day to day basis. We are angry about our predefined roles of what girl is, what girl should be. And we are too calm. Calm about the man that called you a name in the street and all you wanted to do was cry Or the teacher that told you you couldn't do what you wanted because it was a mans place, not a woman's You should have yelled, but you didn't. Because we are too calm. We are too quiet. We are silenced. Our opinions are ranked of worthiness by our physical features, our body types. Our intelligence is last to our ****** appeal. We can not be heard through the babble of social media judging and critiquing and pointing out our flaws. So we are quiet. And we are loud. We have the ability to speak for the world. To weave the revolution out of the words of women. We have the voice to speak to our sisters globally, teach women that we are loud. We can drown out prejudice with the power of voice and bring down the barrier of how a girl should be. We are small. Told that our personalities are preset by the gender normalities that the patriarchy has placed, we are shrunk to fit our predefined roles. They cut us into shapes so we can not realize that we are so much bigger. Because we are big. We are huge. We have global impact. While we are cut down, I would like to see us glue each other back together. I want to see women take back our voices. I want to hear women all over the world speak how they feel, bust through the barriers of what the patriarchy has told them. Fight back against their rapists, abusers, silencers. When someone tells you that you are being too much, say "I am. And I am becoming so much more."
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The bloodied wound Of patriarchy Swings majestically Round my neck, Wavering my thoughts Of what to be And what not to be. I look around Viewing people fight Misogyny and sexism. For I try to do that too, Until I fall once again into a muck, Watching **** crimes On a daily basis Watching acid attack victims On a daily basis. For, some Are too illiterate to know the meaning Of the word, no. For their egos are so small, That they can’t handle rejection. The bloodied wound Of patriarchy Hangs majestically Round my whole body, Begging me to tame it, Oh dear lord, There is ****** of womanhood happening all around, With people pointing to the length of our clothes, To the pitch of our voices. - @enchantingnachokitten
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Sep 8, 2019
Sep 8, 2019 at 11:22 PM UTC
The wound of patriarchy.
I had a gf that used to get called a feminazi, but no one ever called me a feminanarchist; I think what we really were is Feminihilists. FFP opposed *********** defined as the sexualized degradation, ********** humiliation, objectification, subjugation, violation,       psychological annihilation, exploitation,  & violence against women as distinguished from erotica based on the mutuality       of power and pleasure. According to FFP's pioneering founder Page Mellish, *********** provides the training for ****** assault & **** results in the objectification of women; affects women's ability to get equal rights & equal pay, & encourages men to associate *** with violence;  Page ultimately claimed that _all_ feminist issues | [    ,      ], [          ] are rooted in *********** &   in a 1986 letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, she asserted that FFP is "not against love & not against *** Page held that all men or women who did not fight against *********** were accountable for the violence against women, claiming that women who enjoy *********** or rough *** had internalized the male [gaze] & | male definitions of power Page's positions on *********** have been debated outside FFP, including with respect to porn's agency on crime & feminist & gay definitions of **** Legislation alone was not a solution, according to Page; it was also necessary to remove _"the need for **** vehemently anti-censorship & pro-sex, Page taught me to show everything from all sides; my other feminista professors were pro-monogamy [patriarchy] while Page was a combat boot wearing girly-girl; she had these cute little doe-eyed Q's following her around carrying the placards [        ] for her spontaneous demonstrations against underwear
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 5:54 AM UTC
ode on page, feminist & mentor
I had a gf that used to get called a feminazi, but no one ever called me a feminanarchist; I think what we really were is Feminihilists. FFP opposed *********** defined as the sexualized degradation, ********** humiliation, objectification, subjugation, violation,       psychological annihilation, exploitation,  & violence against women as distinguished from erotica based on the mutuality       of power and pleasure. According to FFP's pioneering founder Page Mellish, *********** provides the training for ****** assault & **** results in the objectification of women; affects women's ability to get equal rights & equal pay, & encourages men to associate *** with violence;  Page ultimately claimed that _all_ feminist issues | [    ,      ], [          ] are rooted in *********** &   in a 1986 letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, she asserted that FFP is "not against love & not against *** Page held that all men or women who did not fight against *********** were accountable for the violence against women, claiming that women who enjoy *********** or rough *** had internalized the male [gaze] & | male definitions of power Page's positions on *********** have been debated outside FFP, including with respect to porn's agency on crime & feminist & gay definitions of **** Legislation alone was not a solution, according to Page; it was also necessary to remove _"the need for **** vehemently anti-censorship & pro-sex, Page taught me to show everything from all sides; my other feminista professors were pro-monogamy [patriarchy] while Page was a combat boot wearing girly-girl; she had these cute little doe-eyed Q's following her around carrying the placards [        ] for her spontaneous demonstrations against underwear
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American Democracy is setting a trend: American Democracy is a Sitcom, or perhaps a Game Show of demagogic, narcissistic sociopaths tricking and manipulating the Public via various sources in a highly consolidated Media industry into thinking they vote for a particular flavor of Tyranny when in reality Today's flavor of Tyranny is all decided for you because the burden of Choice is far too stressful for the Moderner without proper medication, and the power of Choice may require some sort of educated critical Thinking, some sort of re-edification which is far too much for us to handle in this socially sanctioned doped-up state and with such an intentionally failing Education system from K through 12 and beyond. With American Democracy, We have a grand Illusion of Choice. It's so convincing that many believe the Illusion is True. (Sort of like hew we think of Reality, but with Choice of Government!) For American Democracy, They don't want mass Education. They don't want mass Edification. They don't want Critical Thinking; Those things prevent a Control by few. In American Democracy, They intentionally destroy progresses made, like Rights, They perpetuate stigmas about things like genders and the concept of "race" itself They propagate Terror as their Sheeple scream from the sidelines for more They defile the sanctity of Human Experience, of Reality itself and chain us to a system that benefits only a few while destroying everything else, like Climate and Environment. These Demagogues are Satan, if Satan is real: They tempt us with the things we don't need, filling us with Stress, Desires, Prejudices and Fears, and ceaselessly wage war on institutions of Education, all the while keeping us from finding the things we already have within each of us. This System of American Democracy has degraded into a  corrupted fractal of the ages-old ways of Tyranny and Terror: Aristocracy, Plutocracy, Patriarchy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Demagoguery, Bankocracy, Corporatocracy, Fascism; Tell me, What is the ******* difference? I mean, even Adolf ****** was elected democratically under the pretense of "Change" then, for weeks later, suspended civil rights indefinitely after a likely false-flag 'attack' on the Reichstag in 1933, (for which the Nazis blamed the communists.) under the pretense of "Security": Demagoguery runs Amok Among disedified Minds. They say "Freedom" and "Democracy" as if it vindicates their Totalitarianism.
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Jun 2, 2013
Jun 2, 2013 at 10:36 PM UTC
American Democracy
American Democracy is setting a trend: American Democracy is a Sitcom, or perhaps a Game Show of demagogic, narcissistic sociopaths tricking and manipulating the Public via various sources in a highly consolidated Media industry into thinking they vote for a particular flavor of Tyranny when in reality Today's flavor of Tyranny is all decided for you because the burden of Choice is far too stressful for the Moderner without proper medication, and the power of Choice may require some sort of educated critical Thinking, some sort of re-edification which is far too much for us to handle in this socially sanctioned doped-up state and with such an intentionally failing Education system from K through 12 and beyond. With American Democracy, We have a grand Illusion of Choice. It's so convincing that many believe the Illusion is True. (Sort of like hew we think of Reality, but with Choice of Government!) For American Democracy, They don't want mass Education. They don't want mass Edification. They don't want Critical Thinking; Those things prevent a Control by few. In American Democracy, They intentionally destroy progresses made, like Rights, They perpetuate stigmas about things like genders and the concept of "race" itself They propagate Terror as their Sheeple scream from the sidelines for more They defile the sanctity of Human Experience, of Reality itself and chain us to a system that benefits only a few while destroying everything else, like Climate and Environment. These Demagogues are Satan, if Satan is real: They tempt us with the things we don't need, filling us with Stress, Desires, Prejudices and Fears, and ceaselessly wage war on institutions of Education, all the while keeping us from finding the things we already have within each of us. This System of American Democracy has degraded into a  corrupted fractal of the ages-old ways of Tyranny and Terror: Aristocracy, Plutocracy, Patriarchy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Demagoguery, Bankocracy, Corporatocracy, Fascism; Tell me, What is the ******* difference? I mean, even Adolf ****** was elected democratically under the pretense of "Change" then, for weeks later, suspended civil rights indefinitely after a likely false-flag 'attack' on the Reichstag in 1933, (for which the Nazis blamed the communists.) under the pretense of "Security": Demagoguery runs Amok Among disedified Minds. They say "Freedom" and "Democracy" as if it vindicates their Totalitarianism.
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Blue skies and apple pies Football games and guns to aim 40 hours of work and fireworks Heteronormativity and conformity White tranquility in the midst of police brutality White terrorism claiming nationalism What is the American Dream? Shutdowns and cages and riches for ages Fascism raises from hateful rampages Families taken away from their own These are a few of Trump's favorite things. What is the American dream? A flag always at half-mast In preparation for the next mass shooting Killing the poor with a minimum wage That can't even afford rent Mocking the people we stole this land from. America the land of the free Construct of the patriarchy Thousands of dollars in medical bills Treating our oceans like landfills. Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light A country so broken the end is in sight. Capitalistic ideals that possess the rich Destroying the poor as we're thrown in a ditch Together we must rise above And show Trump's cult what we're made of.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 10:02 PM UTC
The American Dream
The world is full of shade and prose And I don’t know what to do anymore Audre Lorde said “silence will not protect you” But I been weaving my silences into a survivor’s quilt Because I’m tired of surviving And I’m cold and want to use it as my blanket Out there in that cold *** world The world is full of shade and prose *** workers on boulder highway Wanna be poets writing in spanglish White privilege, patriarchy and all I kinda wish I’d write songs instead of poems You know, songs about love But no Cuz the world is full of shade and prose Bus stops/stop and frisk Judgment day enthusiasts/Holocaust deniers I am tired of “it happened before I was born” And “I feel guilty but I did not ask to be privileged” And when I say: Then do something They ask me “what?” I reply: NO The world is full of shade and prose The chicken never made it across the street There is so much deconstruction And so little relief We will soon end up homeless And will have to pawn the master’s tools Or maybe just sell them at the swapmeet For a dollar or two I mean who cares as long as we’re in love If at the end The world is full of shade and prose.
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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014 at 5:14 AM UTC
shade and prose
All my life, I've been around some of the strongest of women. True inspirations. All unique and incredible in their own way. From a mother unafraid of a patriarchy to her mother, who treats age as just another logistic. These past few months I was lucky to again, live among some of the strongest women I know. Every day, intentionally or not, was a lesson to learn. From them, this I learned: *To live with grace and pride. To love the the little things, Always have wonder on my side. From opening up, trusting a disruptive world. To speak freely, Yet always have a loving word. To learn, to create. To improvise, And know that life's too short, To refuse to compromise. To care for all. But care for the self just a tad bit more. To make the most of a warm, sunny day, Ride my bike a lot, if not everywhere. To live fierce, To love free. And to apologize for being all you can be? Never. For this, I thank you. For you, forever grateful. To some of the strongest women I know.*
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Jun 26, 2017
Jun 26, 2017 at 10:51 AM UTC
To Some of The Strongest Women I Know
I have come to know who I was meant to be, or at least I think I have I have come to know how oppression works, at least I think I do I have come to know what is ethical and what is not, or are my lines arbitrarily mapped I have taken time to think about my life, but have I moved forward with it I think of my past, my present, my future the map to my life unfolding I see what I’ve done and what I hope to experience and I have come to realize something I am part of an enormous painting, one that is committed To ending oppression in all of its forms from patriarchy to racism and classism I don’t know who I am but I know who I’ll be and I know where I will stand I am one pixel, one dot, one stroke on this painting of ending all forms of oppression And when I get discouraged, doubtful, and drab I cannot forget this painting For it is not a portrait of me or of you it is a painting of all of us, a painting of freedom I will keep fighting the fight for true equality, I will not be deterred I will listen, I will love, I will chose to speak up Because without all of us dots, us pixels, and strokes there would be no painting And the beautiful idea that we can all achieve liberation is a reason to keep creating
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 11:32 AM UTC
We
She doesn't dress up for you. How naive of you to even think that's true. Her taking a few drinks or wearing a short dress. Definitely does not mean that it's a yes. She doesn't take those pictures for you to see and judge. She does it because she accepts herself, every scar, every bulge. She wears whatever she wants to wear. And not so you can stand and stare. She does everything she does only for herself. Because she isn't ashamed of her imperfections, she loves them instead. But God forbid a girl love herself in this society. For she will then be destroyed by the patriarchy. Yet she has risen above all the shaming, all the hate and all the horrible expectations they've had. Do you really think that's so bad? She doesn't care anymore if you put her down. She is a queen and her confidence her crown.
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May 12, 2019
May 12, 2019 at 11:06 AM UTC
queen.
vote for nobody because nobody cares that you're a wage-slave that healthcare is astronomical and college is unaffordable nobody tells the truth about global warming nobody gives a **** about smashing the patriarchy nobody understands that black lives matter and since nobody has an ounce of integrity it's in our own best interest to let nobody have all the power if nobody can stop the endless war and ubiquitous surveillance apparatus that subjects the world to invasive violations of privacy then i will give nobody my support nobody pledges allegiance to all brothers and sisters and organisms on planet Earth and feels the weight of each life crushed by the gears of capitalism nobody sits alone in the school cafeteria nobody begs for change on the front-steps of Goldman Sachs nobody pirouettes atop a Charging Bull nobody stares back at you in the mirror a vote for nobody is a vote for everyone
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Jan 24, 2016
Jan 24, 2016 at 12:22 AM UTC
nobody
Americana folklore, the modern vintage spoiled. Early 2000's became the dystopian 80's nightmare; beans spilled by bloodied action heroes part time self fulfilling prophecies. No religion as a crutch. We slay God as a fire breathing dragon, and go to war in 1st world countries because we're ******* mercenary psychopaths America as patriotism is nationalism is patriarchy is violence is a tautology. America is America. Has been and always will be; stupid, violent, full of "grace" [grace like plastic china]. They say Abe Lincoln was honest, and they say Jesus wept. Yeah, Jesus Wept, ************
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May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015 at 6:25 PM UTC
"Beggar, beggar, beggar."
They tell me to stick to my roots because roots lead up to shoots. They tell me to stick to my origin unaware of how it acts as a prison, My roots are Draupadi's hair that was twisted and lugged, my roots are Panchali's saree that was tugged. My roots are Sita's wrist Ravana wrested, my roots are where Ahalya's chastity rested. My roots are parasites that eat up its own herb and **** my roots are rat snakes that eat up its own tissue and meat. My roots are flames of fire that created and watered the plant of Sati, my roots are pools of blood and long ropes that drowned and hanged LaxmiBai and Moolmati. My roots are the dish misogyny flavoured with patriarchy, my roots are naked streams of Ganga washing off their lynching and anarchy. My roots are all the poison Shiva drank during the churning of the sea, my roots are Dhritrashtra's aspirations and ambiguity. My roots are its own herbivore, my roots are the lava that burns its own floor. And my roots are my flesh and bone, so I am stitched to my roots altogether, all alone. So as I cut my own roots, my roots chop me, hence I stick to my roots while my roots remain free.
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 at 4:00 AM UTC
Grounded
Peak temperature water levels fake diagnoses white psychopaths starving hunger jingoism violence [systems that deprive us] guns entitlement shots fired accidents grief/mourning choking hazard corporate mascots corporate favoritism corporate bailouts corporate people ideology without monitor nationalism patriotism conservatives patriarchy murder-rape-suicide victim silence lack of conviction religious ********** false history infant mortality job insecurity invisible hands trickle down economics union busters corporate police brutal police evil police secret police debt bankruptcy foreclosure homelessness lost confused prisoner criminal banker war preparations propaganda ballots commercials advertisements campaigns money power puppets figureheads armies genocides **** bomb gas fire no survival violence wealthy lawyers assassinations heart complications death sleep.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 1:40 PM UTC
"Jawbone; Prescription Assisted."
It was well trained cats in the cattery calling, pats on the back, back door, kicked in, mooring boats on the mooring in the morning and the phone call, cost cut, cold calling, and we're falling, falling, we're falling in love. My best friends are criminals, and the jail cell crying is trying at times but trying sometimes feels tiring. The tire track tiling is abysmal, freewheeling in reverie, revving engines readily, sitting, settling and stirring imaginary cups of tea until eternity gives up delinquently. I fail to recognise the narcissist in me until the inadequate rantings fall of the page at me. I want to be free, I want to be me, I want solidarity and I want that cup of tea, I want patriarchy, I want matrimony, I want monogamy and none of this is hyperbole. I have no apologies, especially not for the words I string together so irrationally. What else could you ask of me? What else indeed, if I can't be naked I can't be free, if I alter the way I write I relinquish personality. It doesn't seem right to me. Dada is too crass for me, I need a cult of spontaneity. The English language is too brash to be... Philosophical ideology and the books I read, all tell lies to me, are all absurd you see, I embrace the monotony, let the waves of the sea wash over me. I let the dictionary pages fall off the quay, like that moth on me, like the sloth i've been and cloth on screens. A dead dog can't scratch it's fleas, but to appease the beast we must first release, all creativity and return to being.
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Jun 30, 2013
Jun 30, 2013 at 7:34 PM UTC
After Sauntering for Days in Dead Wood River Basins, After Sing-Song Campfire Madness, After Inferno Infinity and the Crying of Great River Rationale I Too Write with Reason
It was well trained cats in the cattery calling, pats on the back, back door, kicked in, mooring boats on the mooring in the morning and the phone call, cost cut, cold calling, and we're falling, falling, we're falling in love. My best friends are criminals, and the jail cell crying is trying at times but trying sometimes feels tiring. The tire track tiling is abysmal, freewheeling in reverie, revving engines readily, sitting, settling and stirring imaginary cups of tea until eternity gives up delinquently. I fail to recognise the narcissist in me until the inadequate rantings fall of the page at me. I want to be free, I want to be me, I want solidarity and I want that cup of tea, I want patriarchy, I want matrimony, I want monogamy and none of this is hyperbole. I have no apologies, especially not for the words I string together so irrationally. What else could you ask of me? What else indeed, if I can't be naked I can't be free, if I alter the way I write I relinquish personality. It doesn't seem right to me. Dada is too crass for me, I need a cult of spontaneity. The English language is too brash to be... Philosophical ideology and the books I read, all tell lies to me, are all absurd you see, I embrace the monotony, let the waves of the sea wash over me. I let the dictionary pages fall off the quay, like that moth on me, like the sloth i've been and cloth on screens. A dead dog can't scratch it's fleas, but to appease the beast we must first release, all creativity and return to being.
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you say it is disgusting for me to be naked. you. you who opens up redtube as soon as you walk into your room. you say that i should wear a bra to cover up. that no one would want to see the outline of my ******* when you get hard thinking about taking off my shirt. you tell me to put on a sweater so my bra straps don't show. because you want to be the only one to see them. selfish you are. you. you tell me i am a **** for sleeping with anyone i want. then tell your friends all the ***** things i'll do once you **** me since i'm so "experienced". you will never get to **** me. you. you ************* pissfuck, wretched, privileged, puny COCKroach. you tell me to calm down after you shove my head onto your lap and say **** you ask why i am so uptight. why i don't get that it was just a joke. feminazi you who creates the danger in my life then laughs when i take note of it. you who creates threats to my safety and sanity then questions why i do not simply comply. you who creates hostility. dismissal. you who creates a life-threatening culture around the sacks of fat i have on my chest and the hole i have between my legs. you mock me for gripping my keys walking next to you. i was born naked. i will walk the streets naked. exept for the stilettos i will wear to punch a hole through your patriarchal ********
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 3:02 PM UTC
stiletto patriarchy
"She did the laundry in the mirror of me I saw myself in the mirror and disagreed with the smell, The thought of you was beautiful, but I was wrong, and a feeling of discontent -ment came over me," Misspellings Mispronunciations An unconquerable world of big money I parted ways with the large and saw another even larger world, One that was intelligent and reads the Wall Street Journal, listens to NPR, and says "wow" at the sound of hearing one million dollars, or upon hearing about San Francisco start-ups, or Silicon Valley. Or the opposite, in some ways, but still very similar to - Virginia Woolf. whose book on feminism which I'm unable to explain fully other than to say that she suggests that women only need a bedroom, money, clothes, etc., or rather, less than etc. in that, they need little, but only the bare supplies. That they should be able to supply themselves with what they need for when their husband, which, you know, is not required, in her eyes, for when he separates from her and leaves her 'in the dust,' alone without anything, perhaps only with a child, or in another instance, estate-less, with only a white dress, really more of kitchen-robe than anything else; like Virginia Woolf says, we should really try and dismantle the patriarchy that we write and tell about. Reader, what do you after reading a story, article, or book on radical or moderate feminism say? The boys, like me, who will tell, or, try to tell their perspective of the book and say to the closest person around them, "I just read a great book by Virginia Woolf, she brings to mind an image of a university with white buildings and ends of roofs of university buildings leading along to the the main hall of architecture buildings, with sidewalks pristine and underneath people walking in their sweaters, collegiate, and later to make their way to art history classes in the fall evening. So, like Virginia Woolf, who makes you ask why you're not at the Parthenon, but instead are inside of your house, in a city that you don't want to be in, at a hospital, in your apartment, or surrounded by whoever, she nevertheless gives you have a feeling of longing-ness and a strong emotion of want. Virginia Woolf when will we go to Greece together? What do you know about Athens and classical architecture, I nearly beg you. December 30th 2018 7:11am
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Dec 31, 2018
Dec 31, 2018 at 9:51 PM UTC
Virginia Woolf
"She did the laundry in the mirror of me I saw myself in the mirror and disagreed with the smell, The thought of you was beautiful, but I was wrong, and a feeling of discontent -ment came over me," Misspellings Mispronunciations An unconquerable world of big money I parted ways with the large and saw another even larger world, One that was intelligent and reads the Wall Street Journal, listens to NPR, and says "wow" at the sound of hearing one million dollars, or upon hearing about San Francisco start-ups, or Silicon Valley. Or the opposite, in some ways, but still very similar to - Virginia Woolf. whose book on feminism which I'm unable to explain fully other than to say that she suggests that women only need a bedroom, money, clothes, etc., or rather, less than etc. in that, they need little, but only the bare supplies. That they should be able to supply themselves with what they need for when their husband, which, you know, is not required, in her eyes, for when he separates from her and leaves her 'in the dust,' alone without anything, perhaps only with a child, or in another instance, estate-less, with only a white dress, really more of kitchen-robe than anything else; like Virginia Woolf says, we should really try and dismantle the patriarchy that we write and tell about. Reader, what do you after reading a story, article, or book on radical or moderate feminism say? The boys, like me, who will tell, or, try to tell their perspective of the book and say to the closest person around them, "I just read a great book by Virginia Woolf, she brings to mind an image of a university with white buildings and ends of roofs of university buildings leading along to the the main hall of architecture buildings, with sidewalks pristine and underneath people walking in their sweaters, collegiate, and later to make their way to art history classes in the fall evening. So, like Virginia Woolf, who makes you ask why you're not at the Parthenon, but instead are inside of your house, in a city that you don't want to be in, at a hospital, in your apartment, or surrounded by whoever, she nevertheless gives you have a feeling of longing-ness and a strong emotion of want. Virginia Woolf when will we go to Greece together? What do you know about Athens and classical architecture, I nearly beg you. December 30th 2018 7:11am
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