I think about the moments that people deem pivotal,

Humbling, eye-opening, their shortcomings, a blaring reminder,

And how they overcame it all, how they stood tall, 

Even as their spines withered like parched flowers.

 

It feels aspirational to live vicariously 

Through lives that whirl past quicker than an agitated eddy,

But my reckoning has been the privilege I carry with m...

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Melania Trump's receipt of the EB-1 "Einstein visa"—a U.S. immigration path meant for individuals with extraordinary ability—sparked widespread controversy, as critics questioned how a former model with no scientific, academic, or artistic acclaim qualified while countless highly accomplished immigrants are rejected. The case underscores how privilege, connections, and whiteness can warp...

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POSH

 

Have you ever used a bidet

For washing feet or bits?

Or played a round of croquet

Had high tea at the Ritz?

 

Are you good with 12 bore shotguns

When on a peasant shoot?

Is your name too double barrelled

Are your family full of loot?

 

Have you eaten oysters, caviar

Or used a butter knife?

Do you know what canapes are

Are Defenders on your drive?

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The rich know how to shit

through the eye of a needle,

a matter of willpower

concentration

big loans for research

from big mates at good rates

hysterical really.

 

They consort with Gods

pass through front doors

while others wait round the back

just using the loos

with everything to lose

hysterical really

 

how clearly the definition becomes

when you...

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the trickle down poetics

coiffed, varnished, double dipped,

lay waste the oubliette of empathy

 

no balm, no salve

shall expel the foreign body that

thorns it’s path in the digital red apnoea

of each choked fallen promise

as they steal your desecrated breath

 

your lips are still moving

 

your lips are still moving even

as your face turns blue

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