{"id":263687,"date":"2024-06-10T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=263687"},"modified":"2024-06-06T03:51:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T02:51:54","slug":"landfill-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/06\/landfill-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Landfill Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The moonlight caresses the missile silos in Russia\u00a0and the blown out hospitals in Gaza. The garbage plays in the wind like children.\u00a0The exhaust fumes and the sounds of traffic feel like sex in your senses. You can meet the divine here.\u00a0Here in the city.\u00a0Here in dystopia.\u00a0Here amid the\u2026 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The moonlight caresses the missile silos in Russia
\nand the blown out hospitals in Gaza.<\/p>\n

The garbage plays in the wind like children.
\nThe exhaust fumes and the sounds of traffic feel like sex in your senses.<\/p>\n

You can meet the divine here.
\nHere in the city.
\nHere in dystopia.
\nHere amid the smell of piss and the sleeping bags on the sidewalk.
\nHere in the heart of a dying empire,
\nwhose cancerous tendrils sprawl like ivy
\nacross the dying face of a dying world.<\/p>\n

You can let the LED lights dance
\nwith the light at the core of your being.<\/p>\n

You can drink from the Great Mother\u2019s breasts
\nbeneath a billboard for the latest iThingy.<\/p>\n

You can raise up your heart to the pigeons,
\nand to all the other animal species whose lives
\nwe have not yet succeeded in extinguishing.<\/p>\n

For us, this is Eden.
\nFor us, this is the only place in which Buddha can be born.<\/p>\n

In the future, if there is a future,
\nmaybe the humans figure things out
\nand create a healthy world.
\nBut that world is not our world.
\nThat world is not where we clocked in to do our daily work.<\/p>\n

We clocked in to this strange civilization,
\nwhere headless robot dogs keep showing up in police forces
\nand sniper drones play the sounds of crying babies
\nto lure out Palestinian civilians.<\/p>\n

Where we have amputated our sacred connection with nature and land
\nand affixed a prosthesis made of viral videos and sitcoms
\nto the aching, festering stump.<\/p>\n

Where everyone\u2019s eyes are darkened by unnatural mindings,
\nand everybody\u2019s always hungry no matter how much they eat.<\/p>\n

This is where we will make our stand.<\/p>\n

This tanglewire nest full of fast food wrappers and broken toys,
\nthis mess where everything smells like motor oil and despair.<\/p>\n

This is the manger in which Christ consciousness will be lain.<\/p>\n

This is the armageddon town that will become our paradise.<\/p>\n

This is the landfill empire where we will finally let sprout
\nthose mysterious seeds planted in us long ago.<\/p>\n

In this strange civilization,
\nin their own secret language,
\neven the buzzing drones over Gaza
\nsing the holy name of Allah.<\/p>\n

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Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. Contact: <\/em>admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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