1234567

ONE

“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” 
the most ardent and stringent upholders of these sentiments are deeply disgruntled.
a joyless class.

TWO

your family moved away from your town when you were in middle school - it was a loss.
there must be an intergenerational psychic cost to 246 years of chattel slavery.
harm is harm - even when your truth is disavowed, outlawed, and abandoned. 

THREE

anti-historical // 
acontextual // 
poison pills labeled: [insert tiny whyte lie] :: in the past: cloaked and sold to you as progress.
show up with fervor for your descendants, leave something lovely, 
the way you were able to receive, when you arrived - soft. 

FOUR

if it’s in the body: it’s in the room.

 FIVE

a dance with the ancestors - wanderlust eternal. 

SIX

structural disdain for the people whose economic demise banked a highly profitable venture. 
ever had to buy milk in a food desert?.... 
it’s about to spoil and its hella marked up. 

SEVEN

H. R. 40 
repair, redress - let their spirits rest.
rinse and repeat.
_______________
to the stars and to the dirt. 
march. offer a new hello. commemorate.
and there…

peace. 

<3 m + a