radical

i'm known as a RADICAL because i believe that structures
that support a status quo which is not only responsible
for maiming and murdering children throughout the world,
but also profits from it, must be challenged at every opportunity.

since virtually all of my heroes, from Jesus Christ and Crazy Horse,
to Mahatma Gandhi, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Lewis Hill,
Mother Jones, Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, John Lennon,
Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy,
Tim DeChristopher, Hanan Ashrawi, Amy Goodman, Daniel Ellsberg,
Cornel West, Naomi Klein, Glen Ford, Sandra Steingraber,
Julian Assange, Sarah Shourd, Chelsey Manning, Edward Snowden,
Medea Benjamin, Chris Hedges, William Blum, David Swanson,
Ajamu Baraka, Jose Saramago, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy,
George Orwell, Jacob George, and Dr. Seuss
have also been branded RADICALS, i can't help but observe,
that if i can only live up to the name, i'll be in the best company
i could possibly imagine.