“Evolution”

Yang 
Left brain 
The ascribed 
Sweet rationality 
You're making progress 
Better off than those before you 
Older, wiser 
Newer
And 
Eventually 
It'll all be worth it 
In the end we reach equanimity 
For the idea is that our issues solve themselves 
As you adapt to your transgressions 
Swallow whole their histories 
And write your own 
Wherein 
All that's left 
the parable of the winner 
Self-referenced and replicated 
Projected upon the universe, the world, never worlds
Until it manifests made real: the monoculture 
*that cannot protect planet Earth* 
So this is equanimity, 
The neoliberal 
singularity. 

Dear Positivist, go on 
just not with the master's tools 
please not with tools at all 

……

“For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.” - Audre Lorde