Humans 2.0, a spoken word poem
You can read this poem here and you can switch on auto-captions in YouTube. If you enjoy my spoken word poetry videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel.
You can read this poem here and you can switch on auto-captions in YouTube. If you enjoy my spoken word poetry videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel.
You can read this poem here and you can also switch on auto-captions in YouTube. If you like my spoken word poetry videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel.
I found the landscape beautiful
Like a fool who sees the beauty in everyone
Regardless of how they look or act
At times the land
Hummed with bees
Burst with flowers
Grew green carpets
Witnessed the birth of springing lambs
At other times
It was an apocalyptic wasteland
Barren, save for
Burnt black stubble
Bleached dry grass
Dead lambs dancing
Flatly contorted
Scattered across the land
Organs harvested by predators precisely
The sky and clouds
A backdrop to this state of flux
Always changing too
No two moments the same
For the sun
The moon
And the Milky Way
People close up tight
Into seeds
Into shells
Into sugar coated pills
Curl like armadillos
Armoured cars
Brace for bullets
Arm against amour
Curb against coeur
Node links swiftly sever
Smiles terrify
Contact is a core incursion
“Hello” raises shields
“How are you?” is a bullet
Heading straight for your heart
Each attempt to connect
Is enough to shock you dead
Safer to play
On virtual stages
With other actors
In fantasies of your making
Than open to one
Who asks how you are
In the flesh
With their breath
Sitting an arm’s length
From your heart
It might wound you to feel
It might kill you to connect
My Dad
Was lonely
We all were
Three satellites
Drifting separately
Bound to her by gravity
Keeping our angry star placated
Staying in orbit to enable her transmissions
Sunset and birdsong at the Melbourne Cemetery. Audio and video by Melita White. If you enjoy my videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel.
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This is a really good article by Maheen from the blog This Violence is not a Tragedy on stalking and how the attitudes we have towards stalkers needs to shift. Be aware that a lot of stalking these days happens online, and that stalking often happens when you leave an abuser, as the amount of control they have over you is reduced when you leave. Always make a safety plan with police or a domestic violence organisation if you are leaving an abusive relationship.
This Violence is not a Tragedy
Stalking is not something we necessarily have a very good understanding of as a society. We tend to imagine stalkers as sad individuals with so little going on in their own lives that they fully attach themselves to someone else’s. We envisage stalking in a simplistic way – we conjure up images of a man following a woman around dark corners and sneaking into her garden to simply be near her. Most troubling is that our popular image of the stalker often paints them as a creepy but ultimately harmless figure – too sad to be taken seriously.
But this could not be any further from the truth. A 2017 study from the University of Gloucestershire found that stalking behaviours were present in 94% of intimate partner or domestic homicides. Dr Jane Monckton Smith, a researcher leading on the study, urged police forces to reconsider their methods of assessing risk…
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Tracy Westerman has written an excellent, complex, nuanced article on coercive control, its complexities, and how to spot it. It’s time we were all much more aware of the dynamics of abuse and how abusers cover up their behaviour. I’m a survivor and have extensive lived experience of such abuse. Thanks to an excellent therapist and having educated myself intensively over the past few years, I’ve learnt how to reframe and process my experiences and I know the ins and outs of abusers and how they operate. This article is great. Please read it and share it. It’s time we all stop enabling abusers and blaming victims, and shift our attention instead to cultivating awareness of abuse and supporting victims.
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