The Maenad
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The only white culture is white power
Whiteness is younger than black plague or black reign in Great Zimbabwe
But older than ‘the pilgrims,’ ‘freedom,’ or ‘democracy of the Americas’
A made up make belief that We are better than they, Them, those Others enslaved
But we’re white so it’s all okay
Always “God made it this way”
Convenient
It always comes down to this; what we say, how we pray
Who knows about but doesn’t pay when we slay
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children in schools with robots or robotic minions
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Colonial Jesus of Bell Helicopter tells me so
School is where children go to learn the rule of Who Rules
The lessons brought to you by Smith & Wesson,
Raytheon, or Northrop Grumman
Today Colt, yesterday Armalite
Tomorrow Google and Buzzfeed
If they do it bad, when we do it, good.
Dead kids they killed in Ukraine
Dead kids we killed in Libya, Yemen?
The shroud of dead children covers the lies they transmit,
.
But live and direct, here barely alive
are Ukrainian children surviving this shit
Reduced, digested, redirected and incepted
Heroes and memes for more stupid culture war things
Just keep sitting there in crude suspense
Like rubberneckers at a traffic accident
Here is the truth, but
look away, look away
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The Maenad (She/Hers) Transgender Goddess, an activist, artist, poet, publisher, sex worker, and author of creative non-fiction, erotica, fantasy, and science fiction.
Her work has appeared @corporealitmag @engendered @gutslutpress @fahmidanjournal @redplanetmag @wickedgayways @365tomorrows, within the Gongfarmer’s Almanac and on Madwomen in the Attic.
Her first chapbook, a work of trans erotic liberation, the Ishtar Cycle, is available from @lupercaliapress
Find her @dreaminggynoid on Twitter and @scarlet_maenadum on IG
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