they’re a 7 but they’re delusionally optimistic 🐸

do we know who we are when we back out of our backup plans

hey, kids! kelly was not on top of her full moon manifestations last week because she was too busy living a double life moshing at basement shows and tossing back wine coolers at corporate parties and now she’s over-socialized and she be needs to be isolated from humans for the next 48 hours etc.etc.

anyway, this piece goes out to literally everyone she hung out with last week. (and Paulo Freire). love you guyssss. 💞 xx K

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they’re a 7 but they’re delusionally optimistic 🐸

reflection reflex 
NERDZ! 
the cheat codes 
to the universe are: 
creatures of possibility, 
molotov cocktails, 
& toilet paper runs reality
is never-ending bitch,
I’m the Trojan horse 
superimposed upon 
your corporate party
stop blaming the delays 
on the dialog we all need 
to work 
on our confidence 
in the mosh pit muppets 
unions are nothing short 
of insurance these days 
we’re healing 
our inner teens but 
caretaking has never 
been seen as true labor 
fuck that precarity
is an illusion because 
abundance is all around us  
what if we rotated working 
the tech jobs while 
some of us cooked 
some of us made music 
some of us threw parties & 
some of us taught yoga yo 
we’ve got every skill 
except farming probably 
airdrop me your anarchy 
keep seeing 16 but we 
have 53 genius ideas & 
are too afraid to try 
any of them so busy!
cruising with capital 
in a dark room instead 
turn the lights on our trauma 
isn’t as unique as we thought
it was pedagogy of the 
depressed we’re sick 
of participating in other 
people’s prophecies binders 
& butterflies do we know who 
we are when we back out 
of our backup plans 
trickery & mastery are 
the same kind of currency 
so it's time to pay up
& lick the popsicle,
babies

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Your poetry homework for the week is to get wildly drunk at your next work party because all of the free alcohol in the world doesn’t make up for the fact that they’re not paying you enough 🤑🤑🤑

P.S. I’m also all for this idea that rich tech people should be funding a contemporary renaissance. So hit us up if you know anything about commissioning a gallery show in Amsterdam for an up-and-coming Brazilian artist or funding a Broadway musical that is loosely inspired by our corporate disillusionment. 🎭

P.P.S. - Speaking of cheat codes to the universe, we still really need to figure out how to watch Love Island outside of the UK! Send help! 🚨