Keith HaringProphet of insurgencyPainting epic canvassesBombing walls in hieroglyphics A rebel amidst holocaustGay men and injecting addictsSlaughtered by AIDSAmidst willful political indifference I came of age in the 1990sA young queer manTerrified of the epidemicTerrified that sex could equal death The fever of sexual liberationThe horror of collective devastationA virus […]
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I hesitate to writeBut I have so much to sayOur politics a hurricaneThis age of hope and rage This is a pivotal momentWe rise against a hybrid beastBrutal mass deportationsCarnage in the Middle East But this week resistance thrivesDemocratic socialism arisingA movement in ascendanceEvolving resistance transpiring Let imagination awakenOrganizing amplifying […]
The times are fucking crazyOur president a blundering fascistA cabinet of incompetent sycophantsTheir venality mirrored by their arrogance ICE agents the modern day gestapoTerrorizing communitiesEnforcing mass deportationCreating tidal waves of devastation These politics are putridThey are riot fuelAmplifying rageThis fire we deploy strategically Resistance takes many formsThere are a […]
Sustenance is our birthrightWe are nourished by the elementsNourished by one anotherThe hands that till the soilThe hands that reap the harvest We craft this projectOur food justice newsletterRemembering ancient wisdomInnovating new practicesImagining revolution and liberation Our roots go deepWe draw energetic water from subterranean oasesReservoirs preserved by the […]
This is a pivotal election. We are going to the polls to choose a president amidst global outcry over genocide in Palestine. Wide layers of activists and radicals, Arabs and Muslims, and many more are utterly disgusted by this horrifying status quo. I get it. Its hard to […]
The left is polarizedMillions fueled by renewed hopeHope of avoiding the horror of TrumpThe existential threat of project 2025 But a pivotal minority are enragedProtesting outside of the DNCDemanding an end to arm sales to IsraelAn end to our active complicity in genocideImagining the power of struggle I understand both […]
It is excruciatingly lateAnd I need to sleepBut I also need to write I need to processDissecting this confluence of emotionLiving in a moment of historic proportionsFlirting with the precipice of barbarismAn apocalyptic age of mass destruction I am torn between worldsDeluged by diametrically opposed positionsOut of alignment with much […]
Prologue: Displacement has a long history on this groundNacotchtank: the Piscataway people’s name for this landDescribing the convergence of rivers and its peopleThis park was a Black cemeteryPowerful abolitionists lie interred hereWe imagine a legacySeeds of contemporary resistanceSowed by generations long past Act I: A History of Segregation […]
You were a sacrificeAn offering from the sacredA voice for a generationProphet of liberationProphet of yearning I ride by this riverFeeling subterranean vibrationsThis water helps my spirit cryRiver tears of absolution and restitution Black shadow resonatesOn the surface of sacred waterGlistening like onyxA dark mirror for your storyReflecting the toxicity […]
Your muscular presence is hot and inspiringYour energy is seismic—it is tantra arisingRevolutionary phalanxes are writhing and conspiringYour sex positive chemistry is tantra reviving We must become the power to which we aspireWe must live what we desire—rising ever higherThe liberation we require builds a sacred fireYour eyes are divine […]
You are an intergalactic missionary dancing to the throb of pulsating rhythms You heal schisms and conjure visions—imagining the power to transform this system With the moon in Virgo I feel pride and elation rise to the surface conveying all that you mean to my spirit and my passion We […]
this is not a drillcircumnavigates our globe in tandem with the relative scale of contemporary social dysfunction this is a moment for what is to be donea moment for protection from this infection: for connection and introspection this is a moment that calls for all of us to breatheand look […]
you penetrate my heart–you penetrate my mind you amplify my spirit leaving angels to frolic deep inside the rhythms of my psyche are modulated by your eyes we rise to transform our world into a better child of our hybrid minds sex can transport us to sacred places and transformational […]
black men are fucking beautiful–and it hurts me that sometimes i don’t see that i was born to a black mother and a white father, with tons of white cousins but none on my mother’s side so that and systemic toxicity combined so that while only 8 or so i […]
layers of truth emerge in our minds–they refract and manifest new dimensions come into being, metamorph, and coalesce our psychic strength is evolving in sync with grounding intentional breath we must be still and hone our powers to uproot this cult of death my manic mind seeks cosmic meaning in […]
Refracting through my month of visions has been a vast pyramid with a maze underneath its enclaves house nascent spirits arising from the magical deep I am a disciple of emergent strategy as I have become a disciple of sleep I recruit an army of freedom fighters to evict our […]
visions this intense have never before penetrated my mind i see with godlike vision peering through amplified love fueled eyes fractals manifest everywhere conveying prophecies for our disciples to find this spiritual and erotic armor prepares us to leave the toxicity of this system behind i am ripening through so […]
i am so wired for you pixie angel it is visceral and it is magic my heart is opening but fearing danger we craft a connection that is free, seductive, and emphatic you take me to our own private nirvana where agents of karma vogue with gaga and madonna covered […]
our world is in the throes of a collective spiritual rebirth rebel armies conjuring godlings to imagine a sustainable place on this earth the blood wolf moon brought karmic energy with love and rage interspersed we are crafting our own destiny shaping emergent transformation that cannot be reversed our new […]
cosmological forces conjure elixirs for our sacred apothecary jedi powers rise up fueled by love arming us to do what is necessary enshrouded in beauty of soul and mind you tantalize with seductive eyes this passion is expanding exponentially awakening a global karmic fire you receive me from my travels […]
alcohol and adderall smoking up like biggy smalls toxic habits haunt us all we crave the things that make us fall lines of coke fueling pychotic breaks giving less than I fight to take forgetting how much I have at stake living in sin is make or break sex with […]
we are two but we are one karmic angels worshipping the moon and sun we are moses and abraham’s great grandsons we imagine the nascent godlings we strive to become destiny and fate drew our paths together our lives will meet their end but our souls will live forever craving […]
I write because I have to—I write because I have something to say I create because I have the right to—I imagine a world crafted by holistic ways my mind reinspired by the solstice, I imagine a new multifaceted matrix clothed in technicolor aspirations I arise from the ashes of […]
get into the groove boy you’ve got to prove your love to me get up on your feet and step to the beat–boy what will it be show me what you can do pulsating on the dance floor let the beat leave you hypnotized craving me and wanting more you […]
I am a fractal infecting the matrix a reborn intifada uprooting the empire’s military bases from the sands of the desert where divinity recreates us we craft a reborn faith whose zeitgeist can sustain us we need a holy war to uproot this toxic fascist order a jihad of epic […]
this is a new breed of poem a hybrid-a cylon-a mutating fractal these are verses for the age of cyberpunk dystopia windows into the inner workings of our minds evolving exponentially to give us some faint hope of overthrowing the rising global fascist order i have seen visions both profound […]