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To the 'Civilised' World: You Did This
You killed Hossam Shabat.
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The Apocalypse is Now
It is the moment the curtain lifts.
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Bernie and AOC Are Not Coming to Save You
They are the system now.
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Your Face Looks Like Mine
A Poem for Elisabeth
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Governments Strip Our Rights Because We Terrify Them
Governments, like all empires and institutions built on power hoarded, learned long ago that the most dangerous thing a citizen can be is awake.
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It Was Never Just About You
History does not reward indifference.
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For the Ones Who Refuse to Disappear
An Ode to My Fucking Self and Those Who Faced the Abyss and Spat in Its Eye.
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I Don’t Care About Your Six Degrees
your framed credentials, the Latin stamped in gold, the long-winded way you tell me you once read Foucault and it changed you.
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The Love That Lingers
Some loves don’t leave. They settle in the quiet spaces, in the pause between heartbeats, in the shadows of old songs I’ve stopped searching for.
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The Empire Is Eating Itself
teeth sunk deep into the hands that built it, gnawing through the bones of its believers.
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Ode to Unconditional Love
For Carlos, on his 40th name day
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Why I Welcome the Self-Destruction of So-Called Western Civilization
From its very foundation, the so-called Western world has operated on a simple principle: take what you want, justify it later.
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