Share Your Protest Poetry

[Nicky]

Towards using publishing as a means to form community within this
developing Occupation movement, thought this could be one place to
share writing we're doing in response to the Occupation and/or the
global economic crises affecting our livelihoods (frankly it is hard
for me to write at all without this in some way bearing upon it!). So
here is a thread where we can share works, respond to each others
works, and perhaps produce text to bring to workshops on-site, etc.

<http://www.poetsforlivingwaters.com/> is a good example of this sort
of shared poetic responses to an ongoing event (in that case, the Gulf
of Mexico oil spill) as a way to process what was happening.

[Nicky]

Well, I will start, and most likely the formatting will be butchered
by uploading into this box but here goes nothing.


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In subordinating identity to the new climate of toxicity to the
culture of con                        -taminants con        -
tained in pro-phallic-tics is con             -sciousness raising
lowered to the debt ceiling debacle debate         desensitizing
US to trauma of hy(dro)jacked invisibilized psycho-economic outsourced
losses?
Do I make myself clear channeled as a poet of foreclosure 500 stock-
gap options illegitimately bought     slash borrowed by con -
gressional oversight com-mittees overlooking con -tra dictions in
spending more than we er raise via  regulations dressed in negligee
during senate-deafening con formations?         
Given I’m all episodic inflations monetary injections looking for
that quick fix Derivative detoxification indebted to liquid assets
Sitting on capital like a goose with gold bonded egg bondaged to
hedge -emonic  manufracture of head in sand downgraded  middle
classbody cavities mined for scrap to build new howitzer shells, then
shelved as so much cattle feed  
Do Minds cast as union busted pundit orgies ricocheting
between vulture capitalist shock-awe real(i)ties and barista welfare
PhD’s adjunctly lecturing   in pantomime of pedagogic
progressivism feel shafted by the shifting modes of
technologyqualifying their value with eviction notices or, burdened
by debt, insolvent, silenced by trade   Mechanisms coming to collect
our will against our will having tried to sound the body’s depth In
terms commensurate with the scale of the disasterdepriving it of
breath  can this meltdown muted orifice do what but grin-and-bear it?
 
No manufacturing this lost consolationSaid sector shrinkage, classes
worked for materials shelved Skilled people scrapped is crying out
For dump trucks for Sweden

[Chiara]

Hi!

I joined this group because I want to see it grow. I would love to see
poetry nights on Friday or Saturday down at the occupation where
everyone is telling their stories :) I don't consider myself a poet,
but I'll share some words. I hope to hear all of yours...LIVE FROM
OCCUPY PORTLAND!

screaming through #hastags
i hear the voices of america.
we are the 99 percent,
we are the forgotten,
we are the shoved in the corner -
nobody puts baby in the corner.
so we'll scream through #hastags
and say,
#occupytogether.


OOh! Poetry workshop? Anyone want to show me how it's done??

chiara

[Nicky]

Chiara,

Nice poem, I dig how it gives a body to tweets and can be chanted.
You should totally come to the writing workshop Allison & Kaia will be
hosting Fri. Nov 11th 4-5 pm @ the Library Tent, even if you don't
identify as "poet." It will likely be the first in a series of
workshops/readings, so hope to see you there (where this conversation
can also happen in person!)!

Nicky