from WHAT JUST HAPPENED? My latest book
We could be collaborating with each other and with our ecosystem to create a beautiful, awesome, healthy world. Instead we're all competing with each other working meaningless jobs creating pieces of landfill which serve no purpose besides turning millionaires into billionaires.— Author Caitlin Johnstone, Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers.
my prose from the book WHAT JUST HAPPENED
All I want to do is cross that wall
And leave this place
I’ll pick vegetables, slaughter pigs, feed chickens, clean toilets, watch kids
To escape the poverty of this place
But no one told me THE MAN is on the other side of the wall too
There will always be someone waiting to exploit my labor
And rob me of a living wage and destroy a simple dream.
The bottom line was redlining
You truly cannot succeed
Since they won’t let you
You cannot buy that house
In that neighborhood
No one has bootstraps for this
All I want is to cross that line out
And build community
Heal hearts
End frustration
Live well
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This This This This This This… but then WHAT? (2021)
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