Poetry – Angry Ink

in this heat

angryink — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:56:08 +0000

(august 2020)

when i was a very young child
i said
when i am older i will be a boy
because they have it so easy
all they have to worry about is shaving their beards

i am no longer a child
(sort of)
and i am neither boy nor girl
but i still observe ,,boys” having it easy
biking with the sun on their bare, topless skin
while i suffer the heat in my tshirts
wishing i could feel the rare breeze on my bare nipples
without getting harassed

My First Demonstration

angryink — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 11:45:47 +0000

As I child I once got so angry
I didn’t know what to do with myself
I wanted to show them all
So I moved the furniture around
Feeling the powerful weight of the sofa
Sometimes I finished it off with strings of yarn
Crisscrossing the living room like yellow spiderweb

Later I forgot how to be angry
Take a deep breath
And count to ten
Till the feeling dissipated
I swallow the wool and rearrange the pillows
With a smile

written by huxley for Episode 6 of Angry Ink on The Line

A Poem

angryink — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:50:23 +0000

half of people paralysed
trying to adjust to a
seemingly “comletely new” situation
“we’ve never had a pandemic before”
might be true
if you only regard the last 90 years
if you disregard all the epidemics
happening where you don’t live

now you call for solidarity
but what kind?
the one that includes
people around you, similar enough to you for you to relate
to show compassion?
what about
caring for others in need
beyond the one’s
who directly influence your well-being
the refugees, the homeless
the ones living in precarious conditions
the ones imprisoned
the ones not fitting into this tightly woven system?

what happens meanwhile:
police pushing hastily made laws
for protection, health and safety
is it the kind of safety that
keeps this capitalist society alive
production and overconsumption blossoming
that keeps a system alive where
people are extremly rich while
the ones that you now call “relevant” are
overworking in underpaid jobs?
i know i’m not alone when i say
this system has lived more that long enough
we have to fight to undo it
even when we’re in quarantine
we cannot be isolated

and yes, i still want a healthcare system
one that functions and appreciates the people working for it
and i still don’t wish death for humans
i agree to the point that
washing your hands might be a good idea
keeping some physical space might be a good idea
but keeping a “social distance” is not
what we need is a social closeness that includes the ones most in need
and we don’t need restrictive laws
and groups of police enforcing them

we need people
who think and judge themselves
having the freedom and feeling the responsibility to do so
who think of others and the whole.

written by m. on 27th march 2020