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Words from the Chicago MCA

December 11, 2019
By Halcyonday PLATINUM, Johnson City, Tennessee
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&quot;Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and cry at a funeral? It is because we are not the ones involved.&quot;<br /> -Mark Twain, &quot;Pudd&#039;nHead Wilson&quot;

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the incomplete border

militarism is celebration here

      but fluid narratives and red text play

this is disembodied blackness

          disinformation just for you

daily experience nor market research

promise it could be bad to be true

            an ecstatic odyssey fainting if

logic spells a map of itself

wave if it’s

             amerika

© Hanna G., Setauket, NY

The author's comments:

  From October 26th, 2019 to January 26th, 2020, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art ran an exhibit entitled “Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power”. This exhibit included several pieces that museum guests could interact with, including a sheet of "refrigerator magnet" word stickers - feauturing exhibit titles and key ideas from the exhibition - that guests were invited to rearrange into poetry or prose. I created this poem using words graciously given to me by the Chicago MCA.

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