…this moment
the one when
free drops out of freedom
leaving doms pretending to be subs
and
subs pretending to be permanent
when
russian resurrections
define morality equations
when
presidents alienate aliens
in order to
wall in walmartian
value reductions
when
unions
become empty sets
and
universals
become epithets
when
citizens are defined by origins
as long as
original residents
are first thrown out of the region
this moment when
the shit finally hits the fan
and that whirring
is just a socialist redistribution
of exhumed excreta
this
is the moment when
empathy means something
because
this was forever
exactly
how it always was
and yet…