In/Words Magazine founding editor & mentor Collett Tracy told me recently I oughta give voice to the voiceless. My contemporary contempt for the appropriation of suffering riled, but she & more recent events have swayed me that there’s a way to do this right. Right?
For them
Playing Civilization for the umpteenth, behind in happiness and faith
feel a little woke. Within those simulated states, virtual folk
virtually content and lockstep in their random creeds. IRL
I am a mosaic chip in someone else’s argument
about the West or Canada, or anyone
who isn’t them, anyone
who doesn’t know
how hard it is.
Jeff Blackman 