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By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Thursday, Nov 29, 2018

Inside the TV-box i saw
a thousand products to make you feel
superficial smiley face
but at the man-made borders
using of a product to make you cry.
 
Politicians have said
(so as to tweak your emotional strings)
“Do it for the children”
but now they do it TO the children
(actually a long history of that[1])
in an open-air gas-chamber lite―
blinded by the color of skin
NotSeeing the human being therein
 
Tear gas[2] – formally known as “lachrymator agent” –
ripping families apart,
so-called Central American migrants, asylum seekers
(actually some of the Original Peoples!)
remember when USEmpire land-grabbed parts of Mexico?
centuries before the prez boasted
of a different grabbing―
blinded by the pleasure of skin
NotSeeing the human being therein
 
It’s about the land
and mis-treatment of women and children
who carry the lineages,
and anyone who doesn’t stand in linear consciousness
to wait for a Black Friday TV―
and they tear gassed Occupy Movement protestors,
Standing Rock water-protectors, and many more.
France recently doing it too.[3]
 
With weights, from Arabic taraha, “tare:
thing deducted or rejected, that which is thrown away"[4]
tear gas, tare gas,
what’s the difference when English is a second language―
 
blinded by the color of skin
NotSeeing the human being therein
 
NOTES:
[1] “The Border: 500-Year Open Veins of the Americas

[2] “And the term “tear gas,” when referring to CS, is misleading, because it doesn’t just make your eyes tear when it affects your body; it also makes all of your mucous membranes become inflamed. You expel large amounts of mucus. You cough. You feel like you can’t breathe. You feel like you’re choking. So the term “tear gas” doesn’t really describe the effects that are the result of this chemical.”
- from “How Tear Gas Became a Favorite Weapon of U.S. Border Patrol, Despite Being Banned In Warfare

[3] “Battlefield Paris: Police hit protesters with tear gas as massive fuel rallies grip France
 
[4] Online Etymology Dictionary

 
Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. See his new book of nonfiction with a poetic touch, “photo albums of the heart-mind”.



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