LOVER

viva palestina

Gagging on my cereal, body BURNING for the kids, starving. How can anyone allow it? They'd have to be dead inside. They'd have to have one mind: the conqueror's. To strip kids of their humanity, a mind has to be SO small, unquestioning. How do they live with unquestioning minds?!? With complete confidence in their ONE IDEA: that they are SUPREME & the rest of us are dirt. The thing is - for some of us - dirt is the holiest of holy beings. So that's it, then - there's them & there's us, and we worship Earth. & we want the kids to EAT. What a shocking thing, to simply want kids to eat.

O, the grief, the anguish! Nervously tapping their forks on the emptiest of plates, plates sparkling clean in the middle of a dusty bomb site, plates that look like they've never ever had food on them. Children clanging their silver forks, eyes hollowed, begging, begging us not to starve them. We have failed. Humanity has failed and we all deserve to starve, but not them

I pray & pray for doves to carry them honey & milk, dates & warm bread, strawberries, tomatoes, watermelon. Eggs & polenta & tea with cream & sugar, rice & beans & more rice, rice pudding, soup and more bread. So much bounty that they have to lay down and sleep under blossoming trees full of sweet singing in soft gentle breezes with no drones or bombs or hunger, just summery grass and naps. Then wake to more - salted fish & more rice & greens & apples. I pray them love

and beg their forgiveness which we must spend lifetimes trying to earn that they never ever have to give. Which we will never deserve. Let us suffer, let us starve. Let them live & dream & be the whole world, it's their turn forever, now -

NEX BENEDICT

Trans kids, non binary kids, 2 spirit indigenous kids are worthy of love & respect & deserve, you know, the basics anyone else should get: to live.

I watched video of a tiny girl crying, shaking, hyperventilating, terrified to cross a road in Rafah cuz of Israeli snipers killing people all around her. A paramedic, beautiful loving gentle man, knelt, calmed her, held her, helped her breathe. I've never seen such love. A few hours later, Israel bombed his ambulance and now he's dead. The girl will be dead soon, too, or if by some miracle she survives the bombs, snipers, dehydration, starvation, disease, toxins, Covid, cold, no sleep, no school, no safety and by some miracle manages to live freely on her homeland, or escape to anything that isn't a concentration camp, she will be traumatized so deeply for the rest of her life that her dreams and gifts will never be her own, not really. We are not supposed to live in a world with this much extreme violence & suffering, and I will go to my grave carrying her, and him, and all of it, all of it

 

BLOOD SOAKED FLOUR

It's extremely nightmarish to see happy food posts on social while our government slaughters people (with weapons our taxes pay for) we're forcibly starving as they run for bags of flour dropped from the sky

Listen. Hey

Nasser Hospital was bombed last night and all the doctors & nurses were forced to leave or arrested. The occupation then released attack dogs into the facility. There are sick, immobilized, injured kids and elders trapped in there

I remain livid with molten rage & gutwrenching grief. Every life is many lives, every loss is a universe of loss. THEY DESERVE TO LIVE! We deserve to suffer for this