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Frida and Minju, and me…

21 Friday Feb 2020

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Life

The stunningly beautiful, awe inspiringly humble, and magically talented 
Minju Kim, on Next in Fashion: 

"...my collection is inspired by Frida Kahlo, ...she never gave up."

I must remember that for a thousand and one reasons, and for decades 
now, I too, am inspired by Frida Kahlo... and while that which ails me 
physically, is vastly polar in nature and circumstance, its
ramifications, share everything in common, with that which ailed her... 

...and I remember what she accomplished, who she was, not despite, 
but because of it.

Just for this moment, I will channel Frida, and Minju.

~Marcela: Hanging on by Minju's thread.
Frida
MinjuKim

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A bark with bite…

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

“True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.”
 
-Toni Morrison
 
A culture that ‘fetishizes youth’ is exactly the one we live in… the older and wiser, the more knowledgeable I become, about self and the world, the more valuable I am to others… but: this is precisely when they begin to devalue much of what I have to say… …interesting, that when a great deal of what I had to give was simply loud bark without substance, no bite, they all paid attention… it is little wonder that the Hitlers of the world, like what’s his fuck in the USA, get where they do…we exclude the input of those who know in the decision making.
~Marcela: thinking out loud on real and present adulthood. 

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Parker’n me II – The Culvert

02 Sunday Feb 2020

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Life and death, Poetry, Truth

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The roar of the culvert
spewing forth the runoff,
raging like the internal and external storms
of the night previous,
temporarily assuages my tinnitus and pressure addled brain,
with this other,
din.

I walk on
leaving the culvert behind, and,
with the relentless vengeance of the intruders in my body,
they cut anew; the razor-sharp edges of my current reality
and I wonder:
why I still choose to live this wounded and broken,
life(?).

Parker, Dorothy that is, in all her glory and folly
calls on me, again, to live another day
for while increasingly troublesome,
my vision endeavors to see, that “cherry bough gone white with Spring,”
and so I walk on, desperately seeking;
the next “prettiest, thing.”

~Marcela: not done yet, according to Parker anyway.
02, 02, 2020

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (11)

23 Monday Dec 2019

11- 11 x 6 million sheople following 1 orange piper

On the 11th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
11 x 6000000 sheople following an orange pied piper
10 Leaping Chippendales
9 bombshells dancing
8 old-maid starter seeds
7 plastic seas a floating
6 geezers laying (down)
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics
And a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 23, 2019


Photo Credit (edited-M.Y.M.): 
https://2big2fall.wordpress.com/trump-sheep-one-e/

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (10)

22 Sunday Dec 2019

9-(ish) Leaping Chippendales

On the 10th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
10 Leaping Chippendales
9 bombshells dancing
8 old-maid starter seeds
7 plastic seas a floating
6 geezers laying (down)
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics
And a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 22, 2019

 

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The 12 Days of Crass-mess (9)

21 Saturday Dec 2019



On the 9th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
9 bombshells dancing
8 old-maid starter seeds
7 plastic seas a floating
6 geezers laying (down)
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics
And a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 21, 2019


Photo credit: Atomic Bombshells 
https://www.thestranger.com/events/41781863/
the-atomic-bombshells-injadore-a-burlesque-valentine 

 

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The 12 Days of Crass-mess (8)

20 Friday Dec 2019

8-Old Maid Starter Seeds
On the 8th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
8 old-maid starter seeds
7 plastic seas a floating
6 geezers laying (down)
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics 
And a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree
~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 19, 2019

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (7)

19 Thursday Dec 2019



On the 7th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
7 plastic seas a floating
6 geezers laying (down)
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics
And a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 19 , 2019

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (6)

18 Wednesday Dec 2019

Energeezer


On the 6th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
6 geezers laying (down)
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics 
And a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 18 , 2019

 

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (5)

17 Tuesday Dec 2019

GoldThong
On the 5th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
5 golden thongs
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics
and a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 17, 2019

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (4)

16 Monday Dec 2019

On the 4th day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me
4 cat-calls
3 French fry gift gift cards
2 xmas turtle pics
and a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree
~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 16, 2019

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (3)

15 Sunday Dec 2019

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             On the 3rd day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me 
                         3 French fry gift cards
                             2 xmas turtle pics
      and a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree

~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 15, 2019

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (2)

14 Saturday Dec 2019

On the 2nd day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me,
2 xmas turtle pics
and a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree...
XmasTurtle.2
XmasTurtle.1
~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 14, 2019.

 

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The Twelve Days of Crass-mess (1)

13 Friday Dec 2019

1-Automated Phone Tree

On the 1st day of Crass-mess my true love sent to me,
a voice-mail xmas grting (press 1) on my automated phone tree...
~Marcela: checking (y)our cultural realities
December 13, 2019.

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An Act of Fielty

01 Friday Nov 2019

cock rock

It would be an act of treasonous hypocrisy against me,
to pay homage to you in death,
for truthfully, I neither respected nor liked you,
in life.

It would be an act of heinous duplicity against me,   
to attend an event graced by many who have hurt me profoundly, repeatedly,
in order that I may pay a false-loyalty tribute,
to you, or them.

I wish(ed) you, and them,
no harm,

BUT,

It is an act of love toward self,  
and a clear and present Fuck-You(s),  
that I have lain my sword of Fielty,
at my own feet! 

And on that day of reverence for you,
I shall attend to that, which pleases my heart,
instead.
As befits one who acts, 
unequivocally,
as her own Queen. 
~Marcela: Unapologetically Growing further, ever deeper, into my own skin.  
November 01, 2019



Poetry and Photograph: All Rights Reserved.

 

 

 

 

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