December 1, 2012

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

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