Damiens

Hannah Grimes

 

aug 2020

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your feet are utopian commodities and if you try to get up you will be aware of the handcuffs solidified to your wrists so it is best to stay still and get comfortable before the horses rip off your legs you’re not working hard enough like they did to Damiens who didn’t even get to louis before they torched his torso rip until you are nothing but production but do not rip at anyone but yourself you are not regicide you are moderation fit perfectly into nation they will kill you and no one will see and you deserve this or no they won’t let horses tug at you but they will give you 25 year minimum sentencing and they won’t tar your skin but they will rape you behind heavy double doors and they won’t pour oil on your wounds but they will suffocate you in black rooms for ten years and no they will not set your writhing corpse on fire but they will put you to death without sufficient evidence and beat your body until you are as blue as their uniform and if your body is not working you deserve it your soul is wrong it is a product of power but you’re sitting in this 72,000 dollar room that isn’t a prison because you can leave and get a job and have a home and never steal you’re sitting in this room learning that all people are born equal but it is fine to murder if we name our victim criminal

 

Hannah Grimes is from Hickory, North Carolina, and studies in the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

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