Intersectional Omnicide

caitlinjohnstone (71)in #poetry • 5 years ago (edited)

Our weapons will be manufactured by corporations
that have pansexual CEOs and Muslim shareholders.

The bombers will be emblazoned with rainbow flags
and flown by empowered women of all colors
who will scream "YAAASSS QUEEN!" as the mushroom clouds arise.

The desert sand will turn to glass in the blasts,
and that glass will become a ceiling,
and that ceiling will be shattered
by a lesbian CIA Director.

People will be vaporized on the spot,
or watch their own bodies fall apart like sandcastles,
but they will never be misgendered.

We will march as equals,
white, black, Asian, indigenous,
and whatever miscellaneous extras we can find
(so long as they're photogenic enough for Instagram),
arm-in-arm singing "Fight Song" in one voice
beneath a drone-filled sky
to the edge of extinction
where we will leap together
screaming "This is all Susan Sarandon's fault!"
into the face of the abyss.

It won't be pretty,
it won't be wise,
but at least,
for one glorious flash,
we will get to feel like we really tried.

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