•Because I Said So•

~A black and white guide to being a good American~

Avoid death - follow these rules.

Avoid new - follow old.

Avoid truth - follow blame.

Avoid thinking - follow the news.

Avoid talking - follow yelling.

Avoid pleasure - follow shame.

Avoid pain - follow your prescription label

Double it.

Avoid short skirts - follow orders.

Avoid being brown - follow white men.

Avoid being brown - avoid white men.

You figure it out.

Avoid nuance - follow hard lines.

Avoid love - follow madness.

Avoid time - follow money.

Avoid healing - follow money.

Avoid health - follow money.

Avoid those drugs - follow these drugs.

Avoid reading - follow this link.

Avoid your needs - follow your cravings.

Avoid hunger - follow the drive thru.

Avoid food from your neighbor - follow the dead rivers through eight states to get your pork.

Avoid plants - follow poison.

Avoid grief and just shut the fuck up.

Avoid queer - follow god.

Avoid soil - follow scum.

Avoid yourself - follow culture.

Avoid nature.

Avoid sin - don’t follow your instincts.

Avoid your life - follow me on Instagram.

Avoid caring.

Avoid each other.

Avoid guilt - follow blindly.

Shall we go on?

Can we?

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I normally wouldn’t share a poem like this but yesterday was supposed to be my Gram’s memorial and I think she’d say “why not?”. She was the ignoring of all the above rules in one body. She was a living question. She was open arms. She left a literal wake of light behind her.

Be like her. Break these rules.

Photo @susanlirakis