Drowning Lessons

Brakes broke.

A Tweet from @BreeNewsome, dated 2/1/21, which reads: “A willingness to listen to all sides without consideration of what those sides represent is a lack of discernment, not a show of wisdom.”

As I went walking that endless bread line My landlord gave me a 2-week deadline And Labor Action ran a better headline: “This land was made for you and me!”

This land is their land, it isn’t our land From the plush apartments to the Cadillac car land From the Wall Street office to the Hollywood star land This land is not for you or me

So take your slogan and kindly stow it If this was our land, you’d never know it So let’s get together and overthrow it ‘Cause this land was made for you and me

And then in the middle:

Image 1: A painting of many knights pointing all of their swords into a circle. The swords are labelled, “rat defenders, shark defenders, snake defenders, carrion bird defenders, bat defenders, bug defenders, spider defenders, and ‘unlucky animals’ (black cats, crows, etc) defence squad”. The center of the circle is labelled, “being in the LGBT community”. 

Image 2: A poem which reads as follows: 

She asks me to kill the spider.

Instead, I get the most

peaceful weapons I can find.

/

I take a cup & a napkin, 

I catch the spider, put it outside

and allow it to walk away. 

/

If I am ever caught in the wrong place

at the wrong time, just being alive

and not bothering anyone

/

I hope I am greeted

with the same kind

of mercy.