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Biological Essentialism

SparksInTheNight

Mar 12, 2024

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I'm an immigrant

Not by choice

By ending up here

Somehow

I grew up here

Spent my life here

Went to school here

Worked here

Played here

Laughed here

Cried here

Screamed here

Loved here

Lost here

If you think I don't belong here I can't argue

I won't argue with that

I hate everyone here including me and our exploitativeness and our greed and our apathy

And I'm definitely on the list of people I hate

This is a fact

I'm not a hero

I will never be

And if you say I don't belong here I'll take that as a compliment though it's false

But anyways

I have nowhere else where I belong either

I really just don't

I literally don't

I don't mind

I don't care

There's nothing as freeing

As defining your belonging based on your actions and not your origin

And belonging based on shared experience not based on origin

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If you like this piece check out my Mastodon my account is [email protected] and I post about human rights, social justice, and the environment.

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Table of Contents

#7 All Rich People are Rich

#8 The Virgin Mary Weeps

#9 I Won’t Hierarch

#10 Step Gently

#11 Stars

#12 The Land of Overwhelment

#13 Movement Through the City

#14 I Believe in Magic

#15 Here We Are

#16 Biological Essentialism

#17 Fruitless Courtship

#18 Red (orange yellow)

#19 Feathers and Fire

#24 The Underworld is Lovely this Time of Year

#25 Expression of Identity

#26 Lullaby

#27 Dear Mother

#28 Child Looking Towards the Sky

#29 Not Looking to be Alive Inside

#30 Little Girl

#31 Two

#32 Colonialism Never Went Away

#33 Evening Sky Child and Oh My God

#34 Hushed Lament

#35 Conversations with Myself

#36 And God said "let there be love" and there was love

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