perhaps related, perhaps not... but I then learned (for the first time! [how!?]) of a slave insurrection called the Stono Rebellion of 1739

wow

(and by the way, I try my best to refer to the country as USA and not America. People often laugh when I say I am from Denver, Colorado, USA because we often just make the assumption. America is a super continent, divided in two [arguably 3 plus islands]. America is not just the USA)

(this may or may not be a critical question undergirding my poetry manuscript, aptly titled American Polytychs)

this plus the updated algorithms and feeds means that you have to invest more time and effort to get any yield, made easier of course with paid verification

basically, like everything else, rich people ruined social media

Also check out my music video to the sibling poem of "Preamble" called "Mutual Constitution" (after all, the preamble is the introductory statement)

youtu.be/uNSxIEjEhQU?...

here is the aforementioned poem "Mutual Constitution" in music/music video form

youtu.be/uNSxIEjEhQU?...

someone came up to me after and said "beautiful stanzas" and i think it was a compliment, but all i heard was "Great gowns, beautiful gowns."

I will now be adding "beautiful stanzas" to my toolbox of useful phrases

the western media has been using "war against Hamas" as a cover for "genocide of Palestine" – and it doesn't even matter that Israel is attacking West Bank (is it a war on Hezbollah too? probably...) and Lebanon

not to mention the rebuff of proxy wars in the African continent as "civil wars"

war is a word that the US govt has avoided since the Vietnam War, for many reasons. in my lifetime, congress has not officially declared a war on a country. Instead, our government has declared war on concepts: the "war on terror" and the "war on drugs"