“The only real revolutionary, people say, is a man who has nothing to lose” – MLK
“I can’t sleep cause it’s a war zone in my head” – PTSD, G Herbo
the first person i ever slept with
dead
my mother
dead
my father
dead
my grandparents
dead
the first baby i ever held
dead
aunts and uncles
dead
three of the students i was closest to
dead
the person who is the reason i am alive
dead
me:
We pay for it every day with our lives
We pay for it in anxiety, sleeplessness and depression
We’ll pay for it by taking back what was stolen from us
We pay for it sitting in debtor’s prison
We pay for it with GoFundMe
We’ll pay for it by shutting down the war machine
We pay for it rationing insulin
We pay for it with a pile of pulled teeth
We’ll pay for it by eliminating the parasitic profiteers
We pay for it in funerals
We pay for it in tears
We’ll pay for it by shutting down the streets, taking over the hospitals, crashing the stock market
We pay for it in gravestones and waiting rooms
We pay for it in overdoses
We’ll pay for it by liquidation and expropriation
We’ll pay for it in revolution