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My opinions are built off of the weight I wanna be radical like, If it’s the same pattern over and over again, I wanna be radical like, I’m an optimist. I wanna be radical like, content warning: vague references to current events, reference to Stonewall, general ‘fuck cops and politicians’ sentiments <3 My opinions are built off of the weight of all the pain I’ve seen in the world; carried up and away from the fact that life’s not fair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108521,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108306\/revisions\/108521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof all the pain I’ve seen in the world;
\ncarried up and away from the fact that
\nlife’s not fair<\/em> but fuck you, it should be.
\nSo the fact of the matter is:
\nmy opinions are radical, and more than that –
\nI wanna be radical.<\/p>\n
\nI’ve tasted sunshine and am gonna share,<\/em>
\nradical like, I’m gonna do something different<\/em>,
\nlike human rights should be a default not a privilege<\/em>.
\nCuz you see all this gloom-and-doom, this despair,
\nthe absolute fuckin’ way that they chip and they take
\nand power begets power and you see that
\nanyone who wants<\/strong> power is gonna trample
\neveryone else who is in their way.<\/p>\n
\nthen I want to change it.
\nI am sick of the status quo –
\nI’m radical, I wanna be radical like
\nfirst brick thrown at Stonewall and
\nliving as myself and breathing as myself
\nand knowing my truths.<\/p>\n
\nI’m gonna make a difference,<\/em>
\nradical like, I’m gonna be happy even though you think I shouldn’t be,<\/em>
\nlike the lines that divide us are smaller than the things we share,<\/em>
\ncuz I’ve been raised on fairy tales and I know all about
\npower of love, power of faith, the way we’re tied together –
\nmy rights, my happiness, the same as yours,
\nred string of fate and soulmates being friends and
\ntrue love existing wherever any kind of love does.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s kind of a foolish proposition to take,
\nbut this is not the end of the world –
\nnot as long as I’m living, breathing,
\nable-to-do-something-ing.
\nAnd I know everything seems bad but
\nhumanity is a bunch of obstinate, stubborn fuckers
\nand we riot when we’re hurting.<\/p>\n
\nnone of this matters<\/em>,
\nradical like, we can do better<\/em>,
\nlike when you choose hate I’ll choose love<\/em>.
\nSometimes the best I’ve got is
\na raging, radical fuck you<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"