Questions On When We’re Asked to See A Person & other poems

Questions On When We’re Asked to See A Person

We’re asked to ignore all figurative, superfluous language.
Write and interpret ideas concretely, confidently even.
Best not between the lines. Best substantive, all evident.

Did you know?

Free trade agreements
allow corporations to sue entire nations if they perceive
their actions threaten future
$$$$$$$$$profit$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

It’s just that, in other words,

FREE TRADE TREATIES ARE LEGAL ASSEMBLAGES
UPHOLDING COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE — SEE, IT’S JUST
ONE BIG TRIANGULATION OF THE NATION,
CAPITAL, AND THE GLOBAL NORTH!

Consider on the horizon:

Where are the persons made up in the language?

I’ll give you an example from a corner of the “northern triangle.”

The consuming geometry of it all!

In 2009, Pac Rim Cayman LLC, also known as Pacific Rim Mining Company, a Canadian subsidiary of OceanaGold, sued El Salvador for over $300M in “damages” when the Salvadoran government, despite having granted the corporation exploratory licenses in El Dorado, ultimately refused them proper extraction permits for gold deposits in the Lempa River Basin. Community demands to minimize environmental devastation in a country in which 90% of its surface water is already polluted or contaminated led to this refusal.

As is customary in these situations, the settlement was held in a court tribunal at the World Bank. An international lawyer, George Kahale, refers to the investment agreements that allow corporations to feel empowered enough to do this as “weapons of legal destruction.” Ultimately, the Salvadoran government won the settlement, but went through at least $12 million in defense fees.

In truth, who do courtrooms make real?

OH, IT’S AN INVESTOR’S RIGHT TO PINE
FOR PRECEDENT!

It is important to note that four environmental activists in Cabañas were assassinated before the Salvadoran Government officially decided to not approve any gold-mining licenses. Their names were Dora Sorto, Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera, and Juan Francisco Durán. Dora Sorto, Ramiro Rivera, Marcelo Rivera, and Juan Francisco Durán.

Both the National Civil Police and the Attorney General attributed each of their assassinations to personal or family conflicts despite their public confrontations with Pacific Rim representatives, the evidence of threats they had received, and their active environmental defense work, on top of their original refusal to sell rights to their land.

Dora was eight months pregnant, and holding her two-year old son, when she was murdered. The baby in her womb died with her.

Though community members and organizers in Cabañas have demanded their cases be reopened and further investigated, their requests have gone ignored.

Down the line, a failed bitcoiner has decided, in the name of a god–

BROKE ECONOMIES MUST DEPEND ON DESTRUCTION!
CHAMPION AND DETONATE IN DIVINE PROVIDENCE!

“By creating a language that puts the state at the center, we guarantee the people’s wellbeing
will be at the center of decision making!” said the lawmaker.

There in paradise
the official opinion:
forgo rivers as antecedents.

Dora was eight months pregnant and her baby died.

So, you see,

FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS (AS REALIZED BY INTERNATIONAL LAW) UPHOLD THE UNREALITY THAT A NATION IS AN INDIVIDUAL ENTITY. THAT ALL EXTRACTION AND EXPLOITATION REMAIN HYPOTHETICAL!

Solemnly, they fragment the violence
of corporate greed. Therein sufficient facts and distinction
lies the multimillion dollar victimhood.

How fulfilling, for the fantasy of a nation
to fulfill the fantasy of a corporation;
that when confronting each other in a head-on collision, they think
they see a human between the two of them.

Dora was eight months pregnant.
Dora’s baby died with her.

A Pledge to the Life I Touch // Studio Ghazal

Inside the lead-filled silence of a print studio, I stand with the weight of lettered ligatures
in my hand. I disorient myself in desperate hopes of making

Visible the pattern of thoughts induced by medical diagnoses. I grasp for kinetic principles of touch & transfer. I wish to make

Tactile translations of an embodied language. I want to touch what I say to you. I want you to do the same. I want to make

A print, but first a matrix* that must be clumsily prepared. Preparation can be a violent process of technical damage prior to undergoing pressure, made

With daring cuts, engravings, exposures or burnings, & once beneath the press, the matrix is collected and the information of texture is transferred anew. A relic of contact is made

By the unobservable friction between a bed and drum that finally produce
an image. That is, a preserved record of two things pressing. Successful is the thing made

Beautiful and consumable over and over again. A new mirror of original topography touched. The first print pulled from a matrix is referred to as a “proof.” The proof makes

Apparent the matrix’s functional use. *Matrix, from the Latin mater, meaning “mother,”
the middle English matris, the French matrice, meaning “womb” or “pregnant cavity,” making

This word a location for origin or a mold that gives rise to. To the animate & inanimate entities I consciously ask, how to dissect old formulas for transfering? And to destruction I make

This pledge: In the matrix, I will pang for intimate understanding. I will enjoy the possible consequences of arranging fragments, their probability to fail. I will make

A commitment to memory of what came before and inquisitively anticipate what might come now. I will build reconciliation imprecisely. In the matrix, child, I choose to begin an end.

See: dam breeding animal