“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.”
—bell hooks RIP Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (2012)
somewhere between
y/our cycles
we lost
y/our whole
half of what used to be
re-imagines an/other future
careful to fill the void
with
a hand in need of a puppet
-missing sock
#poetry#creativemeditation#relationships
#Capitalism is abuse.
“Sales” manipulate human fear with urgency, FOMO, and center “saving”as a moral virtue while maintaining the #neoliberal status quo.
Corporate profit margins, exploitation of labor and the destruction of the planet continue…
My “goods” are evil.
(a) COVID "Civil" War Story
Masks and vaccines are a reminder of our mortality.
It activates individual trauma responses when facing the inevitable.
The hybrid reaction of suicidal/homicidal ideation has weaponized our bodies and will be how
death
becomes
us(a).
"Missing Pieces"
As I walked back home, I remember trying to understand how pieces of paper survived but people were in pieces.
At the family assistance center, its outside walls were covered with missing person fliers...
#September11#digitalstorytelling#artsbasedresearch
"Living Nightmare"
...she can't get the image out of her head. She tosses. She turns. Every night at 2:22 am, wide awake, she holds her breath to hold him close. But life comes rushing back with an unwanted release. And they die, all over again...
#digitalstorytelling#grief