'Letter from Amman II' (from my chapbook Affiliation translated to French by Jordanian translator Layan Qarain in Sabrina Soyer's (ed) How to Become Irresistibles.
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The Chimp House by Fiona Benson, 2023
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Wordsworth would be so pleased to see these daffodils every spring!
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I went into a blind rage while watching the coronation livestream and wrote this. enjoy I guess.
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‘For many, the price demanded to reinhabit the world the world has always been silence. But increasingly it feels as if the price to inhabit the world is to speak - speak up, speak to, speak about, speak for: the welcoming tour guide of a self-assembled showhouse of rooms - of representation, authenticity, wound, confession, recognition. There is a constant imperative to confess, through which you are required to exhibit your wound - your trauma - in order to be considered a legitimate subject. Failure to do so can render it as never having happened. Moreover, exhibition of this wound is deemed necessary in order to legitimately critique violence: we must first identify ourselves as victim in order to be awarded the redemptive status of resilient survivor.’
- Lotte LS, This Energy Wasted by Flight, 2022
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First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
First They Came – by Pastor Martin Niemöller
A reminder.
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Bob Hicok NOT fucking around with this one
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