Weep
POETRY FORMAT, 26 Aug 2024
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service
Caitlin Johnstone
Weep, sisters, for the child with the blown-out skull,
for the other child burned alive,
for the limp, lifeless, tiny bodies
and the piles of unrecognizable carnage.
Weep, brothers, for the cackling politicians,
for the apathetic westoids,
for the human drones chanting “We love Joe”
and the DNC attendees covering their ears
to avoid hearing the names of murdered children in Gaza.
Weep for this fraud-faced civilization,
this microplastics civilization,
this OnlyFans civilization,
this Moloch civilization Ginsberg wrote about in Howl,
this civilization with enormous forced grins
over plates full of shredded children
in selfies with AOC and Tim Walz.
Weep with careless abandon.
Weep til the sobbing wrings you out like a sponge.
Weep with head back, screaming sloppy and snot-nosed,
ribcage splayed open to the heavens
and human heart beating unguarded and unhidden.
There are no answers in the weeping.
There are no solutions in the tears.
There is only the release of something that needs release,
and an act of sacred solidarity,
and an act of unauthorized humanity,
and the small, private victory
of having gone one more breath
without being assimilated
by the machine.
22 Aug 2024
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Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper. Contact: admin@caitlinjohnstone.com
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Tags: Children, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Poetry
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