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"You cannot be any but me
fearing that speech is not free
and that life is a good price"

this poem about charlie hebdo is so Good

"What is the genre of pain?

I cannot translate it into a story
Chronology kills it in the beginning, middle and end"

"I saw so much
I never saw
I saw nothing -

I never saw"

"It holds us hostage
to its dreamless
dreams

knowing that nightmares
are immortal"

"No wonder
fortune tellers
can tell the truth:

They have been studying
history"

"the oppressed
crying against injustice
turn into oppressors"
is... is she talking about israel

when white ppl look at u
"The sky in your eyes
is the tempestuous peace
of militant empathy"
ohhhhhhhh