THE TIME WE COULD HAVE SEIZED | COLONIZING THE STARS | STICKS, STONES AND MARKERS

THE TIME WE COULD HAVE SEIZED

there is no longer
such a thing as news

what is said to be news is untrue
what is said to be untrue
is the real news

there is no longer
such a thing as news

there is such an over supply of it
that the needles
of our truth
rot
unharvested
in the rain

there is no longer
such a thing as concern
what is said to be concern
is calculated –
what is calculated
is the only real concern
of those who suck
our blood
to the beat
of algo-rhythm

there is no longer
such a thing as real time
what is said to be real time
is the time
beyond the smoke and mirrors
we could have seized

(c) Julia Wright. October 19 2024. All Rights.

 

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COLONIZING THE STARS

‘ The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings”
Shakespeare

when i was a child
i was taught
to twinkle, twinkle
like a lovely little star

nothing
could go wrong
if i could emulate
the pale whiteness
of the stars’ inimitable light

even Black stars
the myth paternalistically said
could be a red carpeted
prize

my childish essays
if politically correct
would be all gold starred

love
i was assured
would make me
starry eyed

wishing on a shooting star
would let me know
what my fate
had in store
according to magic-lore

but
when i came of age
i learned
that the stars were dead
and that
their legacy, their light
was
a sleight of time

when i came of age
i knew that dead planets
were weaponized
to make us unsee
the reality
of
galaxies of zionist iron domes
and
shooting US phosphorous
shining bright
right over our heads

(c) Julia Wright. October 20th 2024. All Rights Reserved to Samidoun and to playgroundsforpalestine.org

 

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STICKS, STONES AND MARKERS

” Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me and when you need something indeed a ‘please’ is something you must say “
Old anglo-saxon nursery rhyme

kindergarten kids
are taught
in the western world
that sticks and stones
may break their bones
but words will never harm them

that nursery rhyme
passes on the
sick myth
that all you need to do
is say “please”
to get what you need to live

but
tall and proud
the children
of those ancestrally killed
in Palestine
learned that stones thrown
were the only way
to break free
even if it meant broken bones

Refaat Alareer
in his last interview
knowing he was to die
said he would throw
his expo marker
at the israeli soldier
sent to shoot him down

and now
round and round the world
over and over
Yahya Sinwar
outlives himself
ridiculing a US drone
by throwing over his shoulder
as his last legacy –
a viral unseizable baton

(c) Julia Wright. October 21, 2024. All Rights.