Questions at the End of the World
Mighty Mondays vol. 3. Haven't we already been here?
What do we protect first: joy or the breath to enjoy it?
How do we act with virtue without wearing or signaling it?
When will a child be seen as a child, regardless of their parents’ beliefs or zip codes?
Will healing be allowed in the curriculum, or was that thrown out with basic human decency?
When will the movement be ours, truly, without benefit based on WASPiness?
When do I get paid for all the calm explaining for the colleagues who didn’t do the research?
Remind me: am I allowed to be angry in this skin? In these eyes? With this girlhood? With this mouth? Here?
Will they fund the humanities again, or do they have no humanity?
When will their tongues slip and they call me virus or invasive again?
Do you know what it’s like to search a person for water when they offer only desert-parched-throat bitterness?
Do you know what it’s like to come from two countries who call coercion their homeland?
Where are they planning to take us?
Will there come a day when my child can no longer call me home because they took me?
Do you know what it’s like to stand alienated in the midst of performing progressives?
Can I please just be with all my people, the ones who believe everyone deserves to be here?
How does one go home when theirs was stolen and destroyed?
How do you scream when they have stolen your mind too? Where do you go when racism plays internal? When one asks, “Is it eternal?”
Are we there yet? The promised land?
What backwater, godforsaken strand of the multiverse is this?
This, again?