Another Western Slope jueju

TO VOTE

 Mount    Tam    just     a-memory

Lone    Cone    disappeared    in-clouds

"The-incredible    whiteness    of-winter" 

Is    amor-fati     just    code    for-acceptance

of-the-given  •  Could    neoliberalism    just    be

a-trickledown    symptom    of-Joycean    triune

rebellion-from    home    country    creed

The-scraped   ice   of-the-snowplows   echoes   

along-the-highway's    uncomfortable    truths

Why    extend    the-franchise    to-the-hoi-polloi

say    the-one    percent     born    of-privilege

We're    a-nation-state    where    privilege   changes

screens    like    bitcoin    anyway  •  A   free-for-all    capital

market    frenzy    where     class    is-bought    sold    

inherited    or     randomly    pre-selected    out-of-the-blue

Even    the-middle-class    apes     the-haves  •  Just

tolerates    the-have-nots  •  "Only    a-percentage

of-the-eligible    vote    anyway,"    sneers    McRedeye    

shoveling    their-driveway  •  "Let's

make    itki    a-privilege    of-the-few 

who    care"

NOTA BENE: 

“Ki” is a grammatical neologism Indigenous science writer Robin Wall Kimmerer advocates using in place of “it”, “its”, “it’s” or “itself” to help correct English’s objectification of the world. As a pre-school teacher I learned that we learn by going through the known to the unknown. So instead of substituting “ki”, I’ve chosen to add the Indigenous neologism to our neutral English pronoun as a suffix, changing the way we speak of things in English from inanimate to animate, “itki.”  The neologist term is harvested from the last syllable of a longer word in Potawatomi for an “earth being.” That syllable, “ki”, is itkiself a Bodéwadmimwen suffix meaning “from the living earth.”