from We Do the Polis

In the photo
I’m dancing

and the photo’s
on the internet

geo-tagged
to the night

we swayed again-
st the sound






Even as
we knew

it would
never last

long enough
for this to

have become
an epic poem






Fences
down

kitchens
up

it’s what
we call

adaptive
design

Like
using

a hammer
to make

an ATM
out of

a parking
meter

Police realism
bounds in

to contain
the mess

squeeze
the schema

til it pops
and unlocks

Uneven
development

uneven
poetics

we were
the crisis

now we’re
the consequence



                                                                                                      — David Buuck : Oakland : 2013

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