Madness
I owe you madness
As the masses march in lockstep toward the end
I owe you shouting and chaos
if I know
And I know
this isn't right
When the children of mothers who could not stop their children from joining ranks with empire gun down the children of mothers born too melanated to qualify for the dream
I owe you fire to every vehicle, every precinct
I owe you fury
I owe you savagery equal to the destruction of life
If property should come before personhood
I owe you madness
I owe you wailing and gnashing of teeth
I owe you grief
and streets filled with salt
to wash away the blood
I owe you madness
Because that is the only sane response to this moment
My ancestors took the land they were given, the land that was taken from those who were kin to it
And the kin were slain and marched away and worse
My ancestors took it and bought humans and worked them to death and lived and died for empire and I know it
And I owe you fury
I owe you blood
I owe you the truth
So I owe you madness
I owe you unmedicated unmediated attention and connection of brain to breath to truth to body
This body
is the technology of liberation and I will keep it 100% fully charged
With source energy
With the earth and with the generations of shame and shut mouths and shut hearts
A renewable resource
A legion of ancestors who reached the Pearly Gates only to find that in life they had been working for the enemy for free
Parsing the good Earth and its kin
Serving up morsels of flesh to the gaping maw of racialized capitalist death all the while believing the lies of respectability. Hair set. Sweater set. White gloves. White lies.
They believed so many lies.
They have a debt to pay and that debt is my whole life and mind for madness
Mad as in queer
Mad as in landback
Mad as in reparations
Mad as in abolition
Mad as in committed to the truth in each wild moment
May I bring the full force of madness to every second of every day.
This
Is the technology of liberation
You
Are the technology of liberation
It will never be profit or bigger guns or anything new or special or expensive. It will never require you to sever your humanity.
That is the lie.
It is breath and authentic love unleashed on soft animal bodies.
It's attention.
It's co-regulated nervous systems that can pay attention to the moment. Breathe with me with a closed mouth. In and out.
I breathe in the truth, I breathe out the lies.
I breathe in the truth, I breathe out the lies.
I breathe in the truth, I breathe out the lies.
I breathe in the truth, I breathe out the lies.
I breathe in the truth, I breathe out the lies.
This is the Earth.
This is the medicine.
You are the Earth.
You are the medicine.
We are the Earth.
We are the medicine.