CONCERNING VIOLENCE
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A Rusty Pandemic original



For Goran Olsson




"[C]olonialism is not
a thinking machine,
a body endowed with reason.

It is naked
violence & only gives
in when confronted
with greater violence."

- Frantz Fanon,
Wretched of the Earth



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Fanon's Ghost Speaks
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don't pontificate
to empty
bellies.

don't you know
documents burn easy,
but bloodstains take
time to fade?



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Questions for the Subaltern
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For Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak



You know I can't speak for you, right?

Why don't you speak?

Does my duct tape hurt your mouth?



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voice shrapnel

travels

inside

bruised

memories



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"Decolonization is not a metaphor"

For Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Young


metaphors

anaestheticize

knives:

use

with

caution



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Ashglory
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For Paul Celan & Jacques Derrida


I inherit your wounds--
dreaming of snow
offers no therapy.

Your silence calls
me out.

We must disorder
this world in order
to begin.

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