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Waiting on white supremacy to end is waiting for jesus to return. AKA Death to America Gentle Ramirez

And they said, we ended racism / Anti-trans violence, white supremacy

/ That Jesus returned down to earth just to see it. / And witnesses finally believed Jesus wasn’t the only one able to perform miracles. / And they ask how, and I say, together / me and my trans / me and my queer /

me and my Black selves / me and my community / we all we got. / We,

today, blasted our favorite song and danced. / Let a tragedy be a tragedy. / Looked for a way out and found it. / Held myself as a nurturer would.

/ Mourned for another person I did not know. / Knew that it could have

been me. / Mourned at the frequency that happens. / There is no way to

make a virtual funeral sound poetic. / Nor a viral funeral and so I won’t. / I

tell them the story of the time I did not need my grief to be inspiring. / And wrote this to truth to remind myself that I am among the living, / to always take a time to remember, / to be tenderly loving to myself as I live, some more.

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