What is action?

“And, though exceedingly guilty, I am, as thou knowest, exceedingly innocent” - Heloise

1. Skin

Kenny Richey I can’t stop thinking about you rejection of the exercise generates askskinthinmakingyourthingmythingmakingyourthingmythingmakingmythingyourthingmakingyourthing ourskin we were asked I ask you I don’t know you I have been asked I can’t deny me I have to

respond Who’s doing the defining? Who’s doing the defining? Who’s doing the defining? Who’s doing the deafening? An act of disobedience a day keeps the doctor away outbreaks of rash contaminated water I have to respond refugee dancers shockingly darfur permaculturalists poor-quality trial witches in prison thighs plastic package un packaged warm together for a short period, dark theatre

cooking

I AM AN INNOCENT MAN

i am listening to you

2. the chlorophyll’s conversion

A successful activist, many many people mobilised, “this art must do something” combative writer arrested on trumped up charges, shell hell, kangaroo trial Executed 1995 You’re not allowed to ask the awkward question Class and the politics of living simply be a chapter heading Let’s talk about everything but listen very carefully to not miss this moment to puzzle through this moment while somewhere in London a woman hijacks the supermarket tannoy to sing sweetly to the shoppers ‘combat the capitalist inside of you’ Where was I and what did I do when Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed? A keep pressed battery hen blind of free rage

3. Flesh

Katie txtd me askd me if I wd get my arse dwn to Tony’s Café b4 the riot cops arrived 2 evict. It was 10pm , they were coming at 6am . I didn’t make it - is everytime the last time and/or is everytime the only time - belong only to the earth collapsing firm, butter, under each footprint. Share all the food and water you have before it is taken away from you &&& just conjure justice

4. Beta-carotene

Defence System & Equipment International 2005 a street in West Ham, a scared riot of clowns in army gear and pink fluff, council house net curtains twitching: Can we check in? how are we feeling? How arrestable are you? I’ve got that feeling in my belly Are you sure you want to be here? On the street we are love as the police shield the harm dealers isn’t it about time I dedicated my life to asking the awkward question, which is …? never again take security from a relationship the right people in the belly not the throat YES YES to puzzle for 19 years monogamy by DE FAULT isn’t organic veg solidarity is

5. Desirable bacteria

or is not ravaged by the imprint scorch of a kiss & waking up mast

Ur bating? repossess a connection in a possessive it rubs it rubs up against us Up against against Up freedom from possession(s) up against love one how it rubs up against up free pursue against possess up love another are you sure you want to be here? Can we check in?

I’ve got that feeling in my belly gut feeling belly warmth context is everything a warm feeling in my belly a deep low belly feeling an awareness of the belly belly deep down warm the blood spilling This coming must do something!

Share all your love before they take it from you you through you you we do you offer me a new way to be myself the old ones that did nothing for Ken in prison in Brixton in Nigeria in hospital in Camberwell same thing her lover visits her in bed everyday and she gives up a trip to New Zealand

to journey the chemo to gather the asking

6. Water

Burn. 19 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit meanwhile carcinogenic gas flame gasses the Niger Delta Insecurity potential growth Vulnerable is aflame only if seconds can be put between this and what hurts. Shit venting and flaring fuck focussed efforts fuck the fossils kill complexities kill countries execute eggs – all of them! pierce the poorest people pawn them then demonstrate dam building frustrate the fruitful seconds building up to create watchfulness Up against it though who can love?

how does she do it? campaigning for his release at 5,000 miles love translated as

7. Antioxidants and ascorbic acid

it rubs it still rubs up against a frubbing shine I want to eat you all up, apple, cos ur post-pesticide but u’ve got a girlfriend and so have I. But I’ll burn! So, burn! Pounce and withdraw. Disembroil broiler let’s change the story & generate powerful loverful rejections

8. Pips

So get your gravit as out of here, you franchise, recharge the battery, hen

Make love concinnity stop wasting time that could be spent fitting together writing inspire another person to act from the centre of the universe only by acting from the centre of your ground ground midnight earth love channel passion into writing from one to huge don’t lose yr head make it big my love grow wildly love and entangle many antennae

9. Stalk

& skill romance off Yes! I went once I went twice and still time to support the families of Prestes Maia squat in Sao Paulo we are one in precarity I will slowly learn the responsibility of openness give me seconds Come jealousy! pour out anguish and sleep exhausted smoking like a condemned man? you are no condemned man I am listening to you the prosecution’s evidence is weak all major witnesses have changed their story again an agonising wait a gain my navel grazing is for freedom I want you here and in your absence I will

no phone calls no texts easy freeze it a cheeky monkey can do cold turkey honour the other of time they journeying of a pair of bodies in transit free for marks on other bits of paper other over O the rover rhesus monkeys are more compassionate than humans so they say

10. Core

Hearing

a grin

stop

on the

absence

of

voice

Becoming

in distance

insistence

of will

but won’t act

Haven’t slept

for nights

Death row

Ohio

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