….the day after
is only
a day before
another day after
and yet….

…even while we play
Q&A
you
frame the world
through your lens
steady hands
and principled
eye
I flounder, while you
excitedly
tell me : this storyboard p
is nonlinear and fluid and bloody
watch! see! this
is how we will do it –
and i drown in my tears
but somewhere,
my new and old friend
you are flying with lotus
goodbye, until then
and yet……..

….every answer
deserves
a question
so I’m
lock’d and load’d
and ready
to deliver Sir!
Answer: safe streets
Question: whose streets?
Answer: 3rd world development
Question: whose suicides?
Answer: shock and awe
Question: whose law?
Answer: wmd
Question: wtf?
and yet….

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20150510_30_years_later__MOVE_s_lessons_still_not_learned.html#eBU5z5DRzhyhpqsE.01

….these damned questions
they arrest and detain
as if every fight is fraught
and
every inaction an action
they stop and frisk
’cause every move
puts me at risk
and I’m constantly askin
Lauryn
when is everythin
not
everything?
and yet…..
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/stop-and-frisk-dragnet-ferguson-baltimore/

…..will the blow/back suck
if twisted tongue cannot
untangle
phillyisbaltimoreisgujaratisferguson
and will tonguetwisters
trip resistors
blowing
fuses
triggering rolling black/outs
for those who refuse to fuse?
and yet…..
‪

….even as I say
that my hands are tied
you stare down a barrel
and
with a “hands up don’t shoot”
fellate the gun and
persuade the bullet to reverse
course
and yet…

….Can I, I wonder
13 years and
a regime change later
Can I?
and if I must,
should I or
Will I or
teary eyed I
sigh and say I shall
but what I mean
is I won’t
’cause 13 years is
a long-assed cry
and yet…..

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/14/new-india-gujarat-massacre

……even as my eyes droop
yours strafe the world
excruciatingly, excoriatingly,
unflinching
daring
the world to blink first,
as if every lash that curtains
for a second
wipes away a lifetime of memory
and yet……

….I saw, too, those ghostly hands
reaching out from mangled corpses
shuttering lids down on unblinking eyes
the mind lies
right?
it cannot be time to sleep
and yet…..

I remembered the re/membered today
sword slashed and trishul torn
your bodies, the stairway
to PM
heaven
and yet….
‪#‎mouth365

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0ZvADtrDPM

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