What Rough Beast | Covid-19 Edition | 04 17 20 | Nebu La

Nebu La
I’m Dealing With A Global Fucking Crisis

My Love shall linger
Long after the pandemonium is over.
This shift is real.
Prevalent over the whole.
Chains of transmission take on the characteristics
Of hero or antihero.
A touch. A handshake. A kiss.
There isn’t a form of manipulation they don’t love
The first wave is a chorus of voices
And then the Germ is here to stay
It is almost a universal rite of passage
To want to eliminate death.
For if we are dead, there will be no burials.
We couldn’t be happier to find you a cure!
1% of people think of others.
What could go right if that distribution changes?
Think about the view of Earth from space today
“Capitalism. Closed for Business”
A repeated wave

—Submitted on 03/19/2020

Nebu La is a cosmic love poet based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Nebula spent her formative years in England before making her debut in the New York art scene where she reads poetry and plays theremin together, under the name Nebula and the Velvet Queen. She is the founder of the Ladyjams Collective, which organizes a monthly poetry salon at CultPartyNYC, a witches’ coven in Bushwick. She is a member of the Brooklyn Wildlife Collective in Greenpoint, and last year performed poetry extensively on the indie scene including the Brooklyn Wildlife Summer Festival and Bushwick Open Studios. She also performs poetry as part of the Unruly Collective and the DigiAna Collective. The focus of her work is to end capitalism and bring about peace on earth.

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