A Plea for Sincerity

from Light and Shade by Mattie Konig

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Why can’t you speak a single sentence without
Invoking red-blocked 🅱️ emoji stolen
From black America’s undervalued mouth

Is it so hard to rein in the dummy heads
With glowing eyes who speak like a gentleman
Your spicy zest’s bereft of meaning my friend

In lieu of any real comfort some say
“You’re valid” and then leave it at that
I know it’s just a silly thing but I still worry

If you’re concerned with making your mark on life
Producing work that holds against time’s cruel lurch
There’s better ways to go than ephemeral .jpegs of Shaq saying whomst

I’ve done some of this
A few many times
More than I’d like
Gotta turn over a leaf

There was no h3h3
Under the reign of Thutmose
Honour the time worn ways
Discard your fragile jokes

They didn’t call dogs ''g o o d b o y e s''
When pyroclast charred Pliny
Be true to real life
Abandon irony

There was no A. Fantano
Under the Ostrogoths
Your page is losing likes
Your mind is going soft

They didn’t say ''nice meme :^)''
When Onfim made his drawings
Bring back sincerity
Praise be this list of things:

“bless the homes, the fireplaces, the kitchens, the ampitheaters, the bathhouses, the temples, the monasteries, the idols, the statues, the mosaics, the marketplaces, the pyramids, the ziggurats, the tombs, the graves, the skulls, the bones, the body casts, the cairns, the masks, the mounds, the tablets of wax and clay, the alphabet practice, the doodles, the epics, the poems, the heated floors, the cities, the smiles, the tears, the ashes, and all other survivors of time immemorial. i am so, so proud of you.”

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from Light and Shade, released April 11, 2018

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Eclectic progressive music from the weirdest trans woman in all the West Country. How's it going?

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