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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Just Two Weeks
Published: 2022-10-26
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGcxaUpEpk
Title: Just Two Weeks
Published: 2022-10-26
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCGcxaUpEpk
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just two weeks I stand here before you in my mother's hand-me-downs in this world where mothers must work like they don't have children and parent like they don't have jobs keeping households running and bills paid while their hearts run around outside their bodies on tiny little legs that don't yet know where the wolves are but don't you dare over mother them or under mother them or2/8
get anything wrong while treading laundry and Kung fuing the kitchen and oh yeah if you could just save the world from nuclear Armageddon and environmental collapse when you get a minute when you get a minute when you get a minute that'd be great I stand here before you in my mother's hand-me-downs with my mother's strangled voice and my mother's Pine Soul hands and my mother's weeping3/8
back and my mother's feral chores and my mother's loving patience and my mother's gritted teeth and my mother's inner beauty that you never get to see her in a world of unheard Symphonies an unpainted art and oceans of sleeping babies neatly stuffed into a house coat drowned out by a Helen Reddy song I stand here before you in my mother's hand-me-downs glaring with cross hair eyes4/8
at the eel-faced manipulators who blackened the children's sky who poison my children's water who microplastic my children's blood who Scorch my children's Earth to turn billionaires into trillionaires vowing I see you I will stop you right after this dentist appointment right after this assignment right after these taxes right after this to-do list I will be ready to stop you like in two more weeks maybe or5/8
maybe two weeks after that I stand here before you in my mother's hand-me-downs with my mother's intuition two eyes in the back of her head I can see what you were doing but my many eyes can only glance before more dishes pile up before the to-do list unfurls I'll get to it I'll get to you I will stop you I will I see what you are6/8
doing but I just need to take the kids to daycare and make the sandwiches first and stop off on the way to work for a part to fix the air con before the summer comes before the heat you stoked with dinosaur bones and Canary Island loopholes and the infantile Ambitions of impotent men hits our little rental that I'm so grateful to have so grateful on my7/8
hands and knees grateful you're in my mouth grateful please don't kick us out we love you we do like a solar Windstorm barbecuing my children in this tent made of weatherboards like a tiny funeral pyre for bad women naughty witches ladies flying solo who need to be put in their place just two weeks just two weeks just two weeks more just two weeks and I'll sit