Justice is what love looks like in public.

 

What do we call the horror that stretches across our present age like a canopy, a kind of shadow violence, the sort we are all guilty of: violence of the ignored, utterly avoidable variety. The casual violence of cruelty. The violence of poverty, denial, lack of care, of turning our attention away from slow burning fires that we ought to be duty bound to watch and hold in our eyes. We are not innocents here, but shadow men, looking the other way while havoc is wrought in our silence.

[...] to resist is not simply an act of refusal, of holding back against a drowning tide; it is to act totally with love in a world of sinister complicity.

 

Frank O’Hara was right and in “times of crisis we must all decide again and again whom to love.”

 

 

Fatima Bhutto, A World on Fire
 

title quote: Dr. Cornell West 

image: Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Visual Poems by David Joez Villaverde