somewhere | between / beyond | lockdown \ liberation | before / after | restlessness \ unrest | until / upon | dismantlement \ reparation | encompassing / aside from | calling out \ seeking within | including / except | your silence won’t protect you \ who am i to speak | not to mention / let’s not forget | don’t take up space \ you’d better show up | because / despite | be the change \ bitch i am not the one | considering / ignoring | irreconcilable differences \ bound liberations | however / and still | statements \ undertones | but / yet | disposing of black life \ capitalizing on juneteenth | not the least of which / by extension | the antonymization of black and all \ the conflation of matter and sacred | the necessity / the futility | of | centering the marginalized \ decentering the center | to support / the resistance | even against \ all odds | arundhati roy calls quarantine a portal \ angel kyodo williams calls the binary a hell | i gain \ my release | here

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