for even as he took those
irretrievable steps,
Aaron went and said,
'i’m about to engage
in an extreme act of protest,
but compared to what people
have been experiencing in Palestine
at the hands of their colonizers,
it’s not extreme at all.'
*
and of course he was right,
here in the colonial collective west's
moribund reflectionless extremity,
it's not so extreme after all.
not when compared with,
say,
having one's cells blown apart,
suffocating under collapsed buildings,
undergoing surgeries and amputations without anesthesia,
starving to death,
watching loved ones die at the hands of pitiless colonizers,
all normalized now
by
a fabulous wealth hoarding
domination lording
memory hole fueled
socially tooled
staged dueling
cruelty grueling
conformity saddled
piracy addled
intelligence embattled
election immune ruling class.
*
rest in peace,
brave
and
fully conscious Aaron,
forever in my
tattered heart's
open ended lease.
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