Title: Imagine Global Revolution (poem)
Date: Spring, 2012
Topics: Fifth Estate Fifth Estate #386 poetry
Source: FIFTH ESTATE #386, Spring, 2012, Vol. 47, No. 1, page 15What I love about the occupy movement is that it makes no demands. Is a space in which possibility expands. An opening for imaginations to upset the applecart of acquiescent relations. Imagine clearing the slate opening the gate rejecting the horrors of industrial civ un-Occupying Turtle Island and starting to live. Imagine not simply eliminating corporate greed, but creating a world with no corporations to heed, a planet with no capitalist system to feed. Imagine not just governmental reform, but an end to government with freedom the norm. Not a left-wing Tea Party of patriotic citizen dissenters, but the demise of the nation state and an end to renters. Imagine not merely Officer Eco-Friendly on a bike, but No Cops to dislike no police (to) force, none at all, as a matter of course. Imagine occupying all the institutions of the capitalist state without official permission from the keepers of the gate. Occupying everything that you now hate, and transforming the world before it’s too late. Tear up the bloody Constitution. Kick anarchy and start rockin’ global revolution!