Votes

American

Democracy means

Your vote 

Counts more than mine,

My whiteness  

My able body

My heteronormativity 

Gets more than

Your blackness

Your handicap

Your queer body.

Our justice depends

On the judge

On the house

On the senate

On the votes 

That don’t get counted

On a rapist  

Who controls the votes 

On a country

Built on the 

Displacement

Repression 

Murder

Of people 

Of color. 

God

Help

America. 

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Collective Unburdening

Where we come from
The edges are supple
Not rigid
Blurring into the ether
And each other
Where nothing is separate
Not even our minds
Our ideas bleeding
Together
Spreading infections
And immunity
And tolerance
And maybe love.
Maybe love.
Collective unburdening
Divulges
A sparkling collection of
Modern thought
Where love of all colors
All iterations
Can be tolerated
Differences celebrated
Repression
Oppression
Confiscated by the past
Condemned by the future
Like crucifixion and the gallows
Gone
But never
Forgotten.