The Wicked West

Miss Took
2 min readApr 30, 2021

Should we remain silent as companies pollute our waters?
As governments oppress our people?

Should we remain silent when the few of us get to trample on the rest of us?

Sometimes it feels like I can hear the screams of the animals we are laying to waste for the sake of “civilization”

The destruction we perpetuate in the name of “technology” —

I am no pessimist, but I cry for the millions of trees that burned this year
I cried, I cry, how can one have a dry eye? Might it be blind? Or unkind?

Should we remain silent while torture takes place? Torture because of this obsession with a border, and strong men who just scream law and order?

I cannot permit that they get the last word, that the cruel and the brutal command our attention in desperate acts of redirection

I may have begun with the cliches, but why are they?! Why has annihilation become common place? Why has political coercion become normal?

Where the fuck are we?!

Separate, individual, divide and conquer

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