Lie-bury
“There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!”
-August Spies (Haymarket Martyr, Murdered/Hanged 10-11-1887)
“They put you under house arrest, or they make you disappear”
Ai Weiwei (Dissident Artist of China)
the greatest
manifestation
of any free nation
is found in its
institutions of wisdom:
the free library system –
the only system
i truly believe in
and any nation
that fears its own
creative information
lives in fear of its own shadow
and self-identification
follow the library
that protects the stories
of the greatest struggles
of all humanity
Emmett Till
Denise McNair
Addie Mae Collins
Cynthia Wesley
Carole Robertson
Louis Allen
James Earl Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Henry Schwerner
Hector Pieterson
Dulcie September
Alexander Litvinenko
Anna Politkovskaya
Giorgi Sanaya
Natalia Estemirova
Juliano Mer-Khamis
Vittorio Arrigoni
Eman Al-Obeidi
Ai Weiwei
these names
remain alive
because the truth
buries all lies
Library Spies in Maryland (Library Awareness Program) 1982-88. i donated a copy of one of my chapbooks to the Enoch Pratt Central Library during this period, never ever saw my book at the library since!
It’s interesting hearing the rants of the fascist right playing
psyops with the word “fascist” when this country has been firmly ruled by fascism and neo-fascism for quite some time. I guess this is the way they gauge the extent of their bullshit from time to time. How often do they encourage people to venture to the library to see what may be buried there?