I think
that there’s
an assumption
among people
with a certain amount of
privilege maybe
they’re male
maybe they’re
white maybe they’re
straight or rich
that
you choose
to be what
they want
to call
a “political
person”
“i’m not
a political
person”
“i don’t wanna
watch
the news
on teevee”
as if a “political
person” “wants”
to “watch
the news on teevee”
as if there’s
something pleasurable
about watching
the
news and getting
“all riled up”
you know
“emotional” you
know “waterworks”
you know
“hysterical”
you know
to the point
they have to cut out
your organs
you know
“irrational” you know
“irate” you know
rioting or
you know
they say
“looting” you
know “uncivilized”
you
know “savage” you
know “needing”
to be kept
like
an “animal”
you know
“sub-species”
you know
“sub-human”
you know the prefix
“sub-”
meaning under
below beneath
next lower
than or inferior
to
less than
completely
perfectly
or normally
you know
it’s a
desire
to turn
the teevee off
and on
people who
“aren’t political
people” can
turn
the teevee off
and on
like I’d like to
walking around
watching myself
on teevee being
fucked raped eroticized
sexualized beat up shot
underestimated
condescended
to at
the least
stereotyped caricatured
the power
sucked out
of my real
anger
the human
denied
of my being
my personal a political subject.
credits
from Moods: Recognition,
released October 29, 2019
Poem by Francesca Demusz
Composed by Francesca Demusz
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