CONCERNING VIOLENCE
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A Rusty Pandemic original 

 

For Goran Olsson 




"[C]olonialism is not
a thinking machine,
a body endowed with reason. 

It is naked 
violence & only gives
in when confronted
with greater violence." 

- Frantz Fanon, 
Wretched of the Earth



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Fanon's Ghost Speaks
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don't pontificate
to empty 
bellies. 

don't you know
documents burn easy,
but bloodstains take
time to fade? 



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Questions for the Subaltern
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For Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 



You know I can't speak for you, right? 

Why don't you speak? 

Does my duct tape hurt your mouth? 



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voice shrapnel

travels

inside 

bruised

memories



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"Decolonization is not a metaphor" 

For Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Young 


metaphors

anaestheticize 

knives: 

use 

with 

caution 



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Ashglory
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For Paul Celan & Jacques Derrida


I inherit your wounds--
dreaming of snow
offers no therapy.

Your silence calls
me out. 

We must disorder 
this world in order
to begin.