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constructive rage
I'm thinkin
it's the first thing I can do
to remember that homeless guy that set himself on fire
back in N.Y. when I was 19
his life a sudden torch to the truth of it
said fuck this shit
and just set himself on fire
and when I tell folks that I'm gonna join a group of
others to shave our heads
in protest of war
in mourning of the sudden dead
they say "oh erin don't cut your hair, it's so pretty
it'll take so long to grow back"
but i say consider the swelling rolling waves
of the dead
on the shores of living
now a title wave encroaching
consider what they say
and really what's some hair to the crater of bomb and
reconstruct
what is it but my own history holding on in a high
wind of urgency
what is it to the sound of massacre
a sound I cannot even imagine
swallowed by the ocean of empire
it's the least I can do to remember the children
torn to pieces
lives buried just buried
the hospitals
have stopped counting
cuz there’s too many too many
and it's the first thing I can do to honor the dead
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