2018/10/11

wounded fighting

a woman.
sits quietly on the forest floor, drinking the mist, humming, rocking back and forth.

narcissus runs to and from the wardrobe and the water, changing clothes.
he does not eat.

facecrack.
history has it pretty wrong. yes, there has been endless war and exile and return and war and exile and return. all the governors, all the queens, all the drama.
but mostly all of history has been stewarding land, clearing bits of forest, growing berries.
most of history has been calm, fluid, organic.
that history or his story, has been about a kind of man, his tiny temper.

her story
is about the rocks, the swarms, the platonic passionate friendships kept between generations of bees and plants and stars in the sky.

faceblocked.
the algorithm is consolidating all it's offspring it's instagram, it's tinder, it's snapchat.
it's all planted corners of single ballrooms.


five words.
because things in fives evoke protection.
one hundred twenty thousand dollars.
12 years 4,380 days off.

i can hear the squabble in the back of your skull:
‘who does she think she is’ 6
you worked so hard, had a family.
big ideas small time frames.
who does she think she, is 5

sure the bezos and the jobs and the kochs and the bushes and the clintons.
obama sitting in guantanamo, michelle’s navigating the wreckage, malia is at harvard and sasha's been shut up.
fucking gwynneth 
goop 
paltrow married a second time today.
wearing white.
surrounded by satanists:
spielberg, seinfeld, the falchuks, it was lavish.

120 grand to write about the last 12 years. how these fuckwits came to power and why they lost it.

still angry about 911.
September 11, 1973 -Santiago Chile.
refuse to not let it go, wrestle, tossle, mock, scorn and shame.
how is henry kissinger still breathing this air?

who said the andes were ever for sale?
miners, 49ers an era of sweet clementine, child brides, backwoods, american genocide.
i call on the iroquis, on the innuit, on the apache, the navajo, the sioux, cheyenne, maya, inca, mapuche.
all the mothers here with me.

the machines of murder must turn on the masters.
mass failure to comply.
pacific salt, pacific iodine, pacific munition.
the mines must never, ever sully the water, all metals repurposed, all conscience cleansed. 

no acepto declaraciones de legalidades
ni en este momento.
declarar legal o ilegal a una persona o actividad… cállate y la concha de tu madre!
la anarquía es todo.
la soberbia soy yo. 



2018/10/04

you are an us

dear family,

i want us to be formidable.
to have dinner at a long table on the lawn, under the stars, with the river music flowing around our farm, the yiguirros and chicharras.

in response to being violently expelled from my own house, for a fifth time, finding somewhere to live, with friends, 25 times in four years, this is my love letter.

i, jaleh ruhe, share MY powerlessness with every ONE.
because i ask, and know, and question all things #allmen
because i hashtag each proper word with it's most precise meaning in my brain for all times.
because i don't see problems, i see opportunities.

and i draw the circles in time based on the planets in our solar system.
you see mars, i see a brother.
i see saturn, jupiter and uranus.
úranis.
planet of drastic switcheroos and plot twists. planet of the future and of the new era.
it's been in the sign of aries.
for eight years in the sign
of war and strategy.
of selfies.
and now it comes into taurus
where it collects all the ugly wreckage and turns it into a lovely barn, a farm, a refuge.


2018/10/01

cambie esa carita


no acepto declaraciones ni legalidades en este momento.
declarar legal o ilegal a una persona o actividad que procede y que respira, no suma ni resta. 

la anarquía es todo.
la soberbia soy yo. 

October 1st


still angry about 911.
September 11, 1973 -Santiago Chile.
refuse to not let it go, wrestle, tossle, mock, scorn and shame.
how is henry kissinger still breathing this air?

who said the andes were ever for sale?
miners, 49ers an era of sweet clementine, child brides, backwoods, genocide.
i call on the iroquis, on the innuit, on the apache, the navajo, the sioux, cheyenne, maya, inca, mapuche.
all the mothers here with me.

the machines of murder must turn on the masters.
mass failure to comply.
pacific salt, pacific iodine, pacific munition.
the mines must never, ever sully the water, all metals repurposed, all conscience cleansed.