i'm gonna stay with you.

Everybody wants perspective from a hill But everybody's wants can't make it past a window sill

I can see you in your room at night Pictures on your walls

Little forest scenes and high school Halloweens But they don't come to you They don't come to you at all

All houses dream in blueprints Our houses dream so hard

Outside, you can see my shoeprints I've been dreaming in your yard

One of these days, these days will end The Kitchen window, the light will bend

You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife When someone at the table says

"That's not what I call a life!"

The elephants are so ashamed of their size Hosing them down, I tell 'em, "You got pretty eyes"

Out in the backyard, I used to make like I was a cowboy I'd set my dog before a hoop and say, "Now boy, now boy!"

When the governor's heart fails The state bird falls from its branch

Icicles on Hell's higher hills Meanwhile, back home at the ranch

I still get up early in the morning And I never knew a better place

I believe that stars are the headlights of angels Driving from Heaven to save us, to save us

Look in the sky They're driving from Heaven into our eyes

Final words are so hard to devise Promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes

As a CSA victim myself, I don’t think adults should be fucking children. I just don’t think there should be any demographic of people who can be used as an excuse to kill or even harm anyone else by existing, because the specter of the pedophile is actively used by white supremacists and transmisogynists as an excuse to kill and harm Black and Transfemme people, CSA victims, and cause actual CSA prevention tools/centers to be unable to help victims because they must wade through a sea of useless and hyperbolic reports. I’m a staunch abolitionist and believe every person has the right to bodily autonomy including the right to not be killed or harmed unless EVERY POSSIBLE OTHER METHOD OF REPARATION AND RECONCILIATION HAS FAILED. Unless it is an act of self defense or an individual, group, or organization refuses to stop actively harming others where violence has become the only answer, nobody should be being killed, harmed, or exiled in the name of a false premise of “justice” as a first, second, third, or anything but last responses.

None of us are free until all of us are free, including those we hate, those we fear, those we detest. As long as there is a way to make any demographic of people into a monster who anything can be done to, you, too, can be named as that monster and have anything done to you.

Speaking as someone who has actually had multiple people threaten them with lynching, who’s been falsely accused of everything under the sun to justify extrajudicial “justice” within communities, who has been functionally enslaved in the current age and heard and shared the stories of others who have been as well: