“if
all property is theft then all intellectual property is detournement” –M Wark
Sworn to silence
I have become the unfriendly ghost
gone to swim with the fishes
to protect the capsized dream
Ballast inverted
to write down the terrific
facts which appear thrice
first as tragedy (where are we?)
then as farce & finally
behind
our backs
as intellectual property
What we value is self-abolition
camouflaged & crossed
out
when we danced against ourselves
learning to move elsewhere
against weaponized clouds
against the abrogation of treaties
Geneva 1977, Seattle 1865
against mud on the Ho Chi Minh
Trail
we danced to impede the flow of
bodies
against the sign that said
be
the algorithm you want to be
This mission should you choose to
accept it
Salt dropped from sky
to counter intelligent fog
transparent yet sworn to silence