an open letter wrenched from a riven heart

[to all my dear friends who keep passing around

the "can't we just get along" coasting posts

wrapping an ongoing decades long genocide

in "religious differences"]:

*

i'd ever so like to try and help you see

that

that's the spurious line

the profit aligned

common humanity maligned

mainstream fisheries spew.

it's NOT what's happening AT ALL.

it's in fact a systematic attempt

to remove indigenous people

from

their homeland,

held in place by the racist placist colonial coterie;

(that "Democracy" mockery rallied round the United States.)

*

it's not as if the two million residents

of

Gaza's open air prison

can

peacefully protest,

because when they do they kill them anyway.

(and honest to goodness

 the Israelis actually

 refer to that as "mowing the lawn.")

*

and, of course,

other avenues are off limits, too,

like the compassionate countries in the Global South

mounting a resolution in the UN every single year,

which the domination addicted

capital of capital invariably vetoes

(precisely as it manacles sustenance for Cuba.)

*

i know the m(isl)edia's militantly conformist

sorority of authority's narrative subterfuge

engulfs everything around us,

and frames toxicity's boxed in phones,

but how can one not recogise

the truth of what they're seeing,

(right behind the blindered bleating)

when this is the VERY WAY

the

pride glided genocide abided

we-make-up-the-rules-

of-might-sided-right's

"others" derided midnight blight,

crouching over the Western Hemisphere,

managed to mount "freedom's" beacon

on

the still bleeding disaster site

of

a stolen "homeland?"

*

- Evan Hawthorn, the 21st of October, 2023