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Natasha Ksonzek, pág. 98
from FIPGRA 2023. VI Festival Internacional de Poesía Patria Grande Latinoamérica y el Caribe
by FIPGRA
Natasha Ksonzek is an Artist, writer and publisher in Toronto Canada. She co-authored Closed Entrances: Canadian Culture and Imperialism, with Arnold Itwaru. With him she was also co-organizer of the conference series Racism and National Consciousness at New College, University of Toronto for 16 years. Her MA thesis and forthcoming book entitled “Invisible Imperialism” looks into the normalizing of historical and contemporary racism, occupation, exploitation and cultural domination in museum curating practices in the Royal Ontario Museum and The Museum of History in Hull, Quebec, (formerly The Museum of Civilization). She is publisher of the anti imperialist anti racist press Other Eye Books.She has had many art exhibitions in Toronto, has designed book covers and even a theatre backdrop early on. From 2010-2013 she was one MC for Sunday Poetry at Ellington’s Music and café,and a founding member of The Peoples Poetry Music and Art
Festival in Toronto. Her forthcoming poetry book is: “Heartstrong: Poems of the Heart for the People/ Words to see and strengthen by.”
SIMON SAYS
In the lies of our times
The Signs of the Macabre Times are Everywhere…
“Simon Says”,,, a game originating from the Roman conquest times of Emperor Cisero and “Cisero Says”.
The conquest authority must be obeyed, the conquested must be taught to obey only the New Order,
Only the views backed by state and gun, Only what “Cisero Says”.
Only what the conquest state “Canada says”.
Only what the “New World Order military operation says”
only what the pharmaceutically funded big-oil money-controlled World Health Order they call World Health Organization, says.
SIMON SAYS
The game of compliance obedience Behavioural training
Automatonic responses required riveted on the voices of authority
See the elected leaders reading their lines, eyes fixed on the script dictated by the WHO, The World-Order-by-Health-Management, Behavioural-containment-modification, body-invasion-and-social-separation-mandated-by-threat Organization.
See the people obey fear in their eyes, comfort in numbers happy to do as they are told
“Be safe” they repeat comfort in repetition, lost in lies
Masked, blinded, bound and muzzled
Muffled cocooned stultified; Inactivated: Safe.
Safe for the state corporate powers to continue revitalized and re-monetized Re-diminishing your Being
The people I encounter listen to my critical eye and concern
They smile , “just stay safe” they repeat, with an air of knowing and caring. Happy to do what they are told is the success of the trap already.
The signs of the Macabre Times are everywhere Itwaru, I love the sacred you held me to
IN THIS TIME OF UNVEILING
The veils between us they want to augment
To separate us from each other
To stop us from supporting each other
Masking our humanity stopping our exchanges our sharing
keeping our distances
Quarantining our understanding
To hide themselves
To bind us to them
To their imprisoning programs (of unseeing)
Notice their number games
Their profit gains
They want us obedient, divided from each other
To keep safe?
In their continuing escalation of divide and rule domination and theft.
They have always been masking themselves from our sight
As they practice their might against us
But it is the Time of unveilings
They are showing themselves to us
As they practice their might against us
They are showing themselves to us
Can we see?
Do we want to?
