La Loba

what happens if we forgive the wrong people?

The thing about being arts minded in Washington DC is 
you quickly learn that the artists are actually politicians, 
and the politicians are all performance artists

On January 6th I went to the Washington Zoo while the animals stormed the capitol

That's a lie
 I didn't go to the zoo
 it was covid the zoo was closed
 it was winter, DC was cold
 that day I watched
 and smoked

 and paced my space like an animal

That day I watched the lie become it's own malignant mass of crass anger and fat
A lie became an animal

In DC
naturally
an order of the jungle
an ecosystem of hybrid species 
a prevailing environment of dangerously warming democracy


In the capitol, the artist learns of the pardon

Presidents pardon turkeys near Thanksgiving
tax cheats in December
presidents get impeached, resign, then get pardoned by each other

The politics of the pardon
the stratagems behind official forgiveness
no emotion
just business
just transgression
no consequence

We, the people, take offense, don't we, to a pardon that isn't earned?
without remorse, we weigh the integrity of the trespasser's capacity to repent
against the trespasser's initial intent 
You sorry.

You sorry?...

or you sorry you got caught?

The politics of forgiveness
the banality of the state 
procuring emotionless absolution
going through the quotidian motions of serving class and race

The politics of forgiveness
the banality of the state 
procuring emotionless absolution
going through the quotidian motions of serving class and race



Here's some unforgiving shit:

Worker bees don't serve the queen
They serve the HIVE
and if the queen isn't actually serving the workers
a few of them surround the queen
buzz so furiously around her
they produce enough heat
that the queen is burned alive

Overlay the politics of the hive on top of a 
media conglomerate's amplification of the Big Lie
the fomentation of a near fatal national grift

Folks, ALL the news is a little fixed

everybody on tv lies a little
but how do we democratically forgive this?
out of what royal jelly do we mold a moral center 
that sustains inalienable rights through this?

Forgiveness has its politics
what's frustrating is the banality of the state
the flippant amnesia procuring an absolution
bereft of an apology
bereft of fucks as to the impact on democracy
politically
who discerns who we forgive?
and what if we forgive the wrong people?



How do we navigate our troubled unforgiving spirits?
is forgiveness, a human right?...

How do we navigate our troubled unforgiving spirits?
is forgiveness, a human right?...

How do we navigate our troubled unforgiving spirits?
is forgiveness, a human right?...