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my response? same as my grandma and moms, "shakara oloje" (with the teeth-sucking)

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perpetual perfidy lies cut against the cries of starving children and houseless folks
circling the drains of regime change over and over again.
something in the way of things in global humanity seems to come from one place
but no one wants to say its name.
they’ll ponzi scheme you into a lull
have you searching for dialectical perceptions in rooms full of sociopaths
who’ve already figured out the math
plus you can’t calculate
you can’t keep up
stuck in contradictions with your morals still intact
still organizing to swell numbers*.
wake up to broad daylight disappearances
one day he was unpacking from the truck into the corner store
following day he’s surrounded by concrete
hearing the murmured noise mix of cries and whispers.
thumb news still blaring the historic holocaust
at a loss but you go to work anyways
talk to co-workers but all you see is ghosts
and dead black people.
