This is a dead ditch rank with despair’s backwater. A brisk wind can’t raise a ripple from its skin. Why not junk some more scrap tin and copper here, or dump your rotten dinner leftovers in.
Maybe the copper will turn to an emerald green, and peach blossoms bloom out of the tin pots’ rust. Then let the grease weave a layer of silk brocade where germs brew a mist like twilit clouds at dusk.
Let the dead ditchwater ferment to green liquor bubbling up floating pearls out of its white foam, little pearls growing to bigger pearls in chuckles that burst when liquor-raiding mosquitos come.
And so a dead ditch rank with despair’s backwater can claim something lively, bright and all its own. If the frogs here can’t handle the solitude this stagnant muck can gurgle them up a tune!
This is a dead ditch rank with despair’s backwater. No place for a Thing of Beauty in its juice. Let’s just let Hellion Ugliness culture it and see what kind of world it can produce.
I've been down on my luck lately and I came across this Poet while researching Anna Louise Strong, they're buried in the same cemetery. I hope my art and writing has even 0.0001% impact theirs has had. None of the locals seem to want to work with me, idk if it's because I lack the skills, am being replaced by machines or it's due to prejudices, but it's a shame I truly just wished to make the world a better place.
It kind of bothers me because I think every human being who's willing is capable of learning, but to be treated as being unable to learn makes me feel like I'm being treated as less than human. I hope one day prejudices will be able to be set aside and the world will be full of flowing fresh waters, for everybody.
The thing is. A "Just" world would require people to treat everyone the same regardless of their class.
This is impossible to imagine practically working. Can you really imagine there being an earthquake level event and justice being served equally, with no class relations present? Nobody favoring one over the other. The lives of your friends, family, loved ones, being in the same level as a complete stranger you've just met.
It's easier to imagine people trying to build this kind of world be completely wiped out before such a world can exist. I really don't believe communism can function, there will always be class relations and I've seen no proof of them being abolished. Only people trying to and maybe that's the most we will ever get. A "classless" person, person with no relations to anything, is currently classified as someone with a personality disorder. If I want to dedicate my life towards the betterment of us all, it's a "mental illness", the treatment isn't put me in a socialist org, it's put me in a mental hospital.
At the same time, the fact that I know thousands of people will watch me suffer and choose to pick up a cherry flavored vape instead, when just 1 cent from all of them could have saved my family and I still choose to not retaliate, because I know the didn't cause me this pain, there's a different cause for it, the fact that I'm still trying to rally people against it, instead of reacting and flinging shit at bystanders, makes me believe that justice is possible one day, once enough people acquire the knowledge to stop being reactionary. I just won't see it probably and I have to be content with that.