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a chimp orbits space before we do

our tech comes from Africa like we do

the man who built the h bomb built the computer

price?

john von (neu man) teller told it

at least mathematics said it,

dead distant relative exists

subjectively dying under hospital light in a coma , isn’tonlyoneofus

the white walls were everywhere

our children die in the name of a cheap shirt a 3rd world child died for

non-NATO wars die off of the common cold - 2nd hand (,objectively)

a bomb drops before food does

tax speaks in funny languages

maps never show all the history (the way Armageddon is only a place)

time travels faster than light, like no crafty happen could crash into its known it (at least not head on) (a second per second) (bernays shows the opponents how to sell it) (knowledge must be manipulated to know it)

life speaks in funny languages

propaganda only became a “bad” word once it worked

exploitation is life, by way of, to make thru, and hence forth



‘torch of freedom’ to cancer

women’s rights all the way to day care, all the slave you can be
(freedom of press to free to own it all) (long to become your oppressor)

a dog was the first living thing to die in orbit out in space

bacon and eggs became the american breakfast
the one’s that invented free speech also engineered consent speak up for your unifrom dead soap floats better than a republic Arbenz in a chiquita ad who plus who (all) equal no one longer hair for hairnets ballyhoo next number’s edison’s Swan song Laika, day six or six hours? stray thoughts linger longer accustomed to waiting for the food to come to them, my footprints still gather water on your million years without wind, america still gathers flies in its web, inanimate spiders (everything sacred in the snare), only so many dreams to go around, black box and patented destiny, manifest present tense, self-evident across the continent, and still “aliens” in “your” pants, borders bleeding over, should trying to crawl through the would work
exterminator on the line
(electric tight rope and remote patrol) (fucked by borders)

metal bar in our shoes
eyes pigeon toed (& on a bunny hill)
junkie pecking at his seed

an ‘enemy’s’ pet was the first thing to breach outer space (and we think our masters will win us enough food to throw litter) (and we think our chains aint nothing but gravity) (and they think we think we can just continue to shit where we eat) ( and we think we think the only thing we can do with our voice is consume)

(a fruit fly don’t count) (even rats have been to space)

(see which turns to gold first) (then switches to the dollar)

cowry and sea shells made it to money before we reinvented it as institutional debt

one serf collects salt off the back of the next

our tech comes from the idea(l) of community (chattel can make better song than their owners) (suitcases tell stories they end up trapped in) (the cliffhanger was a briefcase) (the #handle was a job) (sold (out) like a gift economy) (no good(s), no services)

i packed to leave slowly, one shirt a day

bacon and eggs was invented before i was

so was the mo(u)ld i’d be sold into

sitting at a window they claim i can’t jump through

(like the last seven exit wounds weren’t the crocodile pit) (like everything aint a parachute out of a fiery airplane) (we splashed down in the pacific)(-ied see)(all the way back from ’69) we landed where we always were
(hopefully, or not)

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from 8 poems from The Humming Prole, released July 16, 2021

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brad hamers Portland, Oregon

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(member of: Through Flames, Child Of No Nation, Cat Child, Dust On Snow, Two Ton Sloth, Phlegm and Al Límite Collective)

Artist at Shrine13

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