Abecedarian On Surviving | Apocalypse

— after Sun Ra's Space is the Place

aliens exist but i’m still alive | in amerikkka

backdrop blue | lives protected more than black

colonization the root of climate change | chronic

deforestation | murder purposely mistaken for death

everyday | another unnecessary angel’s eulogy

for what | seems like will but won’t be forever

generations of grief | seeking god in the genocide

hardened whelmed over by the absence | human

impatience a constant for change | the future imagined

juxtaposing an unnameable | into existing justice

kaleidoscoping science fiction into reality | karmic

light travels us through | years of life-saving liturgies

myth transforms into historical record | missions manifest

new worlds | stardust made non-monolithic niggas name

oppressed folks | their overseers reaped for oblivion

peeled from what was made into what will be | re-write present

quilt belief into the broader tapestry | resurrect it queer

revolution for the masses | a collective re-remembering

subverting middle passage | slave ship turned spacecraft

the instrument prototyping tenderness | isotope teleportation

ultraviolent for the massas who don’t make it | to utopia

virtuosic transitions to an envisioned elsewhere | liminal visions

wage war against erasure | from memory wading in water

xenial alchemy | ancestral end of awaiting a xenagogy

yesterday is today refracted | in the nightmare of yesteryear

zeitgeist of an era we dream real | tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet