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"abolish the dead" by stevie redwood

5/14/2021

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​stevie redwood is a disabled sino-jewish neuroemergent introvert genderpervert homotrash littledreamer bigmouth freak living & dying on Yelamu Ohlone land / San Francisco, CA. they like shittalk, porchsitting, leaflitter, & riffraff. find them trolling yimbys on twitter @trash_whisperer

abolish the dead


living binary :: i’m supposed to be :: grateful to habit :: a body it means :: i think :: i am :: alive :: like

everything else :: a live :: continu :: um :: how much :: living in order :: to cheat being :: dead :: how

ordered :: until the binary :: body how dead :: before the body :: unliving how bodied :: until becoming

:: you think :: how living :: until you :: unbody your body :: how grateful :: you body :: how body become

:: how are you :: undead :: you how :: you living :: how disordered :: before unbecoming :: a binary ::

how disordered until i un :: bi :: nary the body :: & how are your dead :: & are you alive :: & i am :: here

still :: becoming :: disordered :: abolish the body :: a body i am :: still dying :: still living :: become :: be

:: come :: abolish the dying :: a body :: come :: be :: & body the dead :: unliving :: the binaries i am ::

supposed to :: be alive if i bother :: a body :: i think :: it means i am :: grateful :: i am :: the living :: the

dying :: am i :: alive am i :: still :: here i am :: disorder :: still dead :: be here :: what is unbodied :: am i ::

                                                                      what is :: what is what ::                                            is :: what ::


                                                                                                               is the body


:: what is ::          what is what                                                            :: is ::                                                        what

                                                      :: is the body ::                                           & what is ::                        the body ::


                              what is                                             :: what is what ::                                      is :: what ::
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   is the body               :: & what is ::               the body                                                                                :: becoming
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