don’t tell me
or
who gets to make great leaps forward?


don’t tell me
women can’t be heroes

how do you think I got here?

I’m the termite in the ranks

and I tell you
the everyday
won’t be cast off

what won’t the starving dare?
they know
the body is all that there is
that
national enmity hurts the heart

no greater sin than solipsism

socialism won’t be in one country
till peasant women
disavow, destroy – not just four –
but all the old assumptions
that keep them
buried alive

rise termites!
make silence
your vengeance

then no one will
even be looking
when the roof
of the temple
falls

KK

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poetry by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Steven Schroeder | images by Kit Kelen