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Dystopia: Mycology

from tessellations by X Dirty Fingers

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when nature is subversive
without needing symbolism
to be subversive
each leaf of grass or unburnt dinosaur
is a footsoldier in the resistance

when love is insurgency
Cardenal comes out of retirement
Lorca rises from the dirt
49 of my neighbors rise from the dirt
and a kiss becomes protest sign
sex is exercising the right to peaceably assemble
pleasure-cries against the despot
echo like slogans across the courthouse steps

when the young are learning to fear mushrooms
the way our parents and grandparents did
to look forward with hope is a history lesson
building a house or planting a garden
is as much preparation as denial

the only response to those who erect walls
is to add a roof windows doors
the only answer to the tolling
bells of persecution is to say your prayers
through a megaphone
against a line of riot shields and helmets
strip naked and dance circles with Rumi

in the face of dystopia dance
if your body is dystopia let your mind dance instead
if your mind is wasteland stillness is a rhythm
dance before police before fascists
dance with the trees
and alone in your room dance before the guns
if you have no trees nearby dance with skyscrapers
if you have no room you are dancing already

if you have no police, fascists, or guns, give thanks
and then find those who do they are not far away
place your movement between them and the terror
you were so recently a part of

when metaphor is a political tool of the regime
when erasure is the government
-approved method of editing
the past and future
to speak
literally
is the purest form of poetry
to be sincere is more important than to be correct
which is why here I mean every word
especially the ones I left unwritten

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from tessellations, released December 12, 2020

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gay ass folk punk from the swamps of Central Florida

Taryn (she/her) on guitar and vocals
Ali (he/him) on banjo and vocals

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