DAY 1: RIOT AESTHETICS MAKE US FREE, ALICIA COHEN

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RIOT AESTHETICS MAKE US FREE

ALICIA COHEN

The joyful science of occupying squares
The will to everyone’s power…
Direct action – the future of mankind!
LGBT, feminists, defend the nation!

                                                        —Pussy Riot

1.

Riot knit rainbow

for free  to undumb

our sad ears

for all sweet faces to hide in   its

mansion forests

balaclava to shine on and blind bitterness’s    sweet

glowing

heat our hidden free hearts

hearts her lovers wield

a fiery torch not a candle of life-short

in palaces made of prisons

love impels us impulses   us

against our Putin-of-Seven-Billion-Faces to free

Him from the seven trillion forms of vainglory and

struggle to unsmuggle and reveal

God Hooligan Mother singing

we love you too and you and you

may all beings be free

may all beings know peace

and the joy-

ful science!

2.

in prison’s

uncovering

every second they serve

a bequest of undoing

the hurt part in

the deepest lake’s dark and

our starry hearts

riot work makes

more flowing the air

more flowering

blooms

and less cars to roam

Saint Alyokhina Saint Samutsevich Saint Tolok-nikova again made the world

by making it

Matter