We are all books waiting to be read

I was born in a hospital
at 2 in the morning
Pre-Mature
3 months till due

Placental Oxygen Deprivation occurred
Taken so early
Mom couldn’t hold me
Tubes down my throats
Machines that kept me breathing when my lungs couldn’t

Expected to inherit the “worst” defects

I survived
Not many made it
But, such trauma faced still lingers
My unconscious inability to chew for long periods
my mild cerebral palsy
and other things

I only know of this because my mother told me all of it as a child
my family corroborated the stories
the diary mom wrote is a document that proves it

The Grim Reaper granted me a special gift
Death as a process of slow, satisfying, decomposing beautiful love
Magic and strange process that happens to all
that in the end, will let me live with my dynamic existence
& take me back to all the things that I love….

Born from the depths of below
and given love and solidarity from the ones above
Creating solidarity and revolutionary syndicalism
with those who tag along…and sabotage

the things that hold us down will die

and all creatures

will be able to decompose, love, and learn

without any worry…

“Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the union makes us strong”
– Ralph Chaplin