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Lockdown shifting the power differential, one pixel at a time

December 6, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

In the room I loomed and had power

Now on the zoom I lurk in the corner

of the screen

And have to take my chances

With the network connection of doom

05 December

December 5, 2021 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

trees grow together

such power in a forest

but one can stand alone

inspired by Sabas

They told us to wait

March 30, 2020 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

They told us to wait and then still did nothing
They told us to wait and to stop all our fussing
They worked us to death then applauded our coffins
They told us to wait and then still did nothing

I said to my mother

August 10, 2015 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

I said to my mother that poetry was power, that the voice of the young would ring clear in the spring. She told me to get up and put some clothes on, I was missing the best part of the day.

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