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A Poem by Ookpik
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I have no qualms with watching the world burn down -
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We set the kindling, poured the napalm and placed the magnifying glass
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Before affronting each other with shock and horror
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After mother nature lit the match.
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I have no qualms with that -
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We brought this upon ourselves -
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And though it might very well become
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My generation's inheritance,
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I still feel that we deserve it somehow.
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My friends really did die -
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Alcohol related suicides, 
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Inter-generational trauma 
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And the colonial enterprise.
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I really did see that.
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And I feel that if redemption were to exist,
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It would be so neutral in its practice 
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That it'd probably seem ambivalent -
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A thoughtless fire,
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A thoughtless war,
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A thoughtless poem
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And a thoughtless, global suicide.
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I have no qualms with that.
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It's a nihilistic drink,
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A pessimistic notion,
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and it won't bring justice back -
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For make no mistake,
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Justice died a long time ago,
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If it ever even existed to begin with - 
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But I feel that to die that way
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Would be so Karmatic
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That I'd have to force myself not to laugh.
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© 2020 Ookpik


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Ookpik
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Deep. I dont really have anything to say. I'm just commenting so that you know I read it and thought it was great and I'm still a fan. thanks for sharing

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