Winter Solstice Greetings 2023
Excess
~ Olka Baldeh ~
You don't want a Birkin.You don't want a Patek Phillipe.
You don't want to ride in a private jet.
You want the earth to live.
You don't want thirty-one bedrooms, seventeen bathrooms, and a water feature.
You don't want a private island,
Don't want to dine in Doha,
Don't want to flex.
You want the emergency to end.
You want the dappled light touching the forest floor
and your beloveds giggling over mushrooms.
You want the swamp and the storm.
You want the mountain back that Apple turned into floors.
You don't want three million dollars on your neck, in your ear, on your fingers-
ice drippin with blood.
You don't want a Ferrari, a Bentley, a Maybach, an Aston Martin or a Buggatti.
You want the Mississippi to run clear.
You want your brother to be alive again.
You want it to stop hurting so bad.
You don't want Dolce at the Met,
Balenciaga on the red carpet.
You don't wanna make billion dolla bets.
You want birdsong, and owl hoot, and cricket chirp.
You wanna know what peace feels like,
what sweet reprieve feels like.
You don't want a super yacht
You don't want to own twelve original Basquiats
You don't want to short the market
Or long the con
You don't to hunt endangered
Or run the law.
You want food to be free
Children too.
Black, fat, and gay
You want less harsh road
and more ease being you.
You don't want to want.
You want to be.
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