Yellow Cake Mine the shit out of Lakota land, I’ve see yellow, blue, and purple, Where the white man sees yellow, Cake, let them eat it, Lakota, Yellow, blue, and purple flowers, I make crowns for the girls, Weaving flowers as I plant trees, I hear a twelve pack is…

Middle Ages What if my words could deliver mortal blows, Would they rip across the landscape, …or zip into a corner, and construct intricate subtle piercing flows, I’m not impressed, or at peace as you see, As it goes, everyone knows the rules to life, As adults sitting in a…

These Days Oakland City, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. October 17, 2019 If I were a lesser man I’d be in prison, I’ve seen eighteen years of war at home. My home is a War on Terror. Come from either side, you want to see conflict come to dinner. Ethnic, battle of the sexes, modernity, religious we got it all. I could just smoke it all away but I can’t afford that, so I’ll photograph it and pass it on. Seething with fire, 🔥 I’ll burn down Babylon one day, I pray.

Mobile armored riot police, Who are you, white man, White woman, who wears, A clean shirt, slacks and skirt, Drives a nice car, Lives in a nice house, Somewhere in 30345, Do you own a house, Have kids to wipe the snot, Off as they cry, over spilled, White milk, white milk, Spoiled and old, curdled, Pasteurized, safe, fenced, Clean, no germs, store, Bought…

My cousin in Turkey Meral would meet with me via Skype in the format that we are now all too familiar with after COVID-19, video chat back in 2012 when I was in my third postdoctoral research position at Harvard Medical School. At the time, I was deeply frustrated with…

There was a major cell phone outage yesterday. Any time there is a major outage of cell phone service nationwide I freak out, having been subjected to severe FBI surveillance following the Standing Rock Reservation protests. See this article on the history of Standing Rock and the military contractor TigerSwan…

“The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice.” ― Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double The streets are on fire with protests around the nation this summer, and considering all the world is a stage…