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If I
could count the silence
I could sleep, sleep.
But it
is one, one. No head even
to gnaw. Spinning.
If I
could halt the glazed
spinning, surface of glass,
my mind
could shove in its fingers
and break apart
the smooth
singleness of the night—
until sleep dropped as rain
upon me.
— William Carlos Williams (The Pink Church)
On the anniversary of the women’s march I would like to share again this compilation of footage, filmed in Montpelier, VT on January 21st, 2017.
“america wake up the enemy has always been here”
for mom
video and editing by e. t. perry
title borrowed from Muslim Girls Making Change
Montpelier, Vermont
January 21st, 2017
Watch today’s Democracy Now show – MLK speech in London, 1964: https://www.democracynow.org/2018/1/15/newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech_on.
“america wake up the enemy has always been here”
for mom
video and editing by e. t. perry
title borrowed from Muslim Girls Making Change
Montpelier, Vermont
January 21st, 2017
“Millicent Barnes, age twenty-five, young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes, not given to undue anxiety or fears, or for that matter even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career women, she has a generic classification as a, quote, girl with a head on her shoulders, end of quote. All of which is mentioned now because in just a moment the head on Miss Barnes’s shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block. Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she’s going mad.”
am i like the small, ineffectual woman
outside the restaurant?
sweeping up cigarette butts
in bermuda shorts and sunglasses
in a way i envy her
at least she
works hard for her money
sweeping
taking out the recycling
even though her restaurant
always smells like garbage and
is always hot
because it’s on the side street where
they put the dumpsters and
there’s no shade
cleothedog 