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Dark Fruit

Strange Fruit choreography speaks to me of seeing and smelling this strange evil fruit of hatred and bigotry and fear and straight white man perpetual menace. Choreographing trauma only infrequently translates words of DarkHole poems Rhetoric hoping to carry carrion reek, shock of evil awe and dark timeless burdens Terrifying wonder as perceived within this Strange Fruit DarkView Rather than more interior unvoiced feelings of profound inhumane disarray, denial and division, hate climates monoculturing supremacy Of straight white monotheistically judgmental, capitalist movers and shakers, commodifiers and waste disposers and arms salesmen prepared to aim at semi-domesticated talking animals, defiant live stock, breeding stock, bargain basement slave labor Too smart to be trusted not to seek reparations and revenge Strange Dark Fruit, the enslaving racist face frantically encircling straight white fascism in full flagrant, strange southern fruit, industrially resilient horror. Strange Fruit Anthropocene, with polyculturally felt choreography of ecopolitical disempowering/unenlightened monochromatic lack of appropriate appreciation for color, spectral circling octaves, and peak experiences of compassionate bipartisan drama Cooperative intent, without so much Patriarchal-Capitalist monotheistic StrangeFruit xenophobic trauma.

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