Editor’s note: The Pitt News regularly receives and publishes letters to the Editor. In this case, a reader sent a poem. All indentations, line breaks and misspellings are to the wishes of the poet.
“non-reaction non reaction POEM”
we do not explain what this is like because analogy
is just a fire I have felt & felt, and just as just as small and cold as any reason and
if what you want
is just 199 OR SO engagements with your post YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
M’I right I wrote “F*** TRUMP” on some sixty something posts from major
sources and this morning
What you want if what you want is truth is I AM WHITE & truth
In truth the sh*t begins this sh*t BEGINS & it BEGINS & it BEGINS with white
BEGINNING with the WHITES who WHO who TOLD YOU that “this couldn’t
happen this sh*t
COULDN’T HAPPEN”
& it does not have an end but in the middle there is ACTION that is that if
what you want is truth is TRUTH IS what I am is I AM WHITE is what I am to
blame
and this is after watching all your friends/the media blame everyone around
EXCEPT for WHITES, & watch “I’m loving” & “I’m nice” stand RIGHT in front of I AM WHITE. we cried last nights, many genders in a circle, yes yes
what I am is WHITE white most of all I’m white disquieted and craven white and
sad white white and male &
I am ALL like “ANYONE could write this” but in fact I’m white I WROTE THIS & I
hope what we do is we ask myself why I HAD TO WRITE THIS &
I am like this isn’t very good and I am right white white
the WEST COAST riots to the music of the day and does not NOT mix metaphors
but this is PITTSBURGH if I publish this AND IF I PUBLISH THIS I cannot say
f*** but I’m allowed to say how MIFFED with LOTS OF F’S. Resonating out in front
in front IN FRONT the mouth. This too is good.
the WEST COAST riots to the music of the day and does not mix its metaphors but
what what PITTSBURGH does now now is we negotiate with COPS and if you
let us MARCH DOWN BAUM AGAIN and if you LET US thanks
and most of us are white & PLEASE & it’s not
& it’s not as if “Once everyone can be identified, we’ll have THAT WHICH THAT
can be the algorithm for the optimum “diversity.”” #f***THAT #F*** F*** #f***TRUMP feel better &
if what you want is data I AM I AM ALL LIKE
WHITES
TO ALL MY WHITES—
WE whites we did this F***ED THIS UP
& if you’re WHITE and THINK you’re gonna hide behind your gender or your
VOTE
guess what GUESS YOU ARE THE guess you are A PROBLEM
& if what you want is TRUTH is what you want is BLAME, then BLAME the
REASON why a WHITE can SUCH AS ME CAN be WHITESPLAINING this to
YOU &
& if what you really want is WE as in the WE the “WE SURVIVED THROUGH
JOHNSON, NIXON, REAGAN, (CLINTON), BUSH, BUSH what what what
WHATEVER what you are is wrong is WHAT YOU ARE IS RACIST easily as
“WE” is RACIST EASILY. The WE is often ALWAYS WHITE and we are often
ALWAYS WHITE, so this makes sense
to say SELF-CARE is RADICAL & it is on the web and so is RADICAL is ACTION,
seldom thought to be SELF-CARE
but this is all the TRUTH if what you want is true &
early in the morning FIRST NIGHT after when there was no sun NO WHITE it
seemed SUDDEN suddenly the white LEFT government was needed NEEDED
for the “revolution”. For example is was easier the night before to tell a cop to F*** HIMSELF f*** f*** and for example it was easier to SHOUT & shout f***
f***
& f*** F*** F***
f*** F*** APOLOGIST tourette’s & then
& then suddenly the F*** came easy EASY F***
then suddenly got easier to F*** and F*** THE COPS because this is 100x
non-violent &
the RADICAL itself is is itself & IS ITSELF SELF-CARE &
this is EASY gets & GETS to be way EASIER together, I am now WHITESPLAINING
Such as for example such as stop and rest your voice THIS ROUND it is still LOUD.
The whitesplanation
need not anymore include BE SAYING we don’t need another vigil what we need is NEED TO ORGANIZE
we need to ORGANIZE
to ORGANIZE by FOLLOWING by FELLOWING NONWHITES & THEN
if what you want is truth is WHITE that ripples in the fire of the day of every
WHITE of WHITES. & WHITES—
WHITES, if you FEEL LIKE pretending this election wasn’t ever ALWAYS ALL
ABOUT YOU, you deny what truth is TRUTH IS you DENYING TRUTH OF
PRIVILEGE & this is the DEFINITION OF what what THE RACIST
but this is no the condemnation WHITE no just the gentle tender and non-violent
observation.
This is very simple it’s the simplest it’s a call to action CALL TO ORGANIZE we nd
nw to ORGANIZE to stand tgthr ORGANIZE & stnd together LISTEN to them
LISTEN listen up
I started to START start TEXTING everyone
I cannot apologize I TOOK TOO LONG I should have written earlier WAS
WRITTEN I was in despair until the riot SO CAN YOU &
this is just the EPIC of the generation of the EPIC of the epic of the NOW of the
NOT WAITING for the NOW the copy of the EPIC OF THE NOW