HOW WE FUCK SHIT UP by Aleathia Drehmer & Brad Burjan

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Toy(ing) with the Revolution

For Brad Burjan

 

You can’t wrap your fingers

around it, the elusive it.

 

There aren’t too many

things to wrap a finger

 

around, but the image

burns my eyes; your

 

fingers long and rough

wrapping around the neck

 

of the establishment.  You

mutter it is all gift wrap

 

for tiny toys anyway.  I try to laugh

but all I see are toy machetes

 

and your fingers the revolutionaries

taking it all down; your breath

 

the revolution itself, pulling

it in and spitting it back out.

 

Your tears create the flood

that washes them all away.

 

Aleathia Drehmer