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Benicio Silva
Benicio Silva
Dec 6, 2015 · 3 min read

We do not have a problem with mass shootings in America

Our only problem is a collective inability to understand structural violence.

It’s almost cliche at this point to mention the way our culture mistakes shock-value for effect. How a spark of bright violence…

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Benicio Silva
Benicio Silva
Nov 15, 2015 · 2 min read

A quote and three theses offered with Paris in Mind

“Distrust those cosmopolitans who search out…

Benicio Silva
Benicio Silva in Poets Unlimited
Sep 28, 2015 · 1 min read

The Ends

Every day, but always from beside — no faces.
All ear and profile: common thinking.
All bits of tape.
All on the same sagged birthday banner.
All co-adheased,
crackly and tenuous.

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Benicio Silva
Benicio Silva
Sep 23, 2015 · 1 min read

Disquiet Prince

Recently St. Vincent, my days are all distance:
Who I am and who I want to be;
to whom I love;
from whom I see.
Home and work and back and again —
podcasts between.

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