Saturday, February 29, 2020

Junkyard hammer


  “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


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