Ana King

“She scrubs me until I spit
soapy water.
Pig, she smiles.
A man should smell better than his country—
such is the silence
of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing
silence moves us to speak.
She throws my shoes
and glasses in the air,
I am of deaf people
and I have
no country but a bathtub and an infant and a marriage bed!
Soaping together
is sacred to us.
Washing each other’s shoulders.
You can fuck
anyone—but with whom can you sit
in water?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“Life is free, food grows on trees.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“And when they bombed other people's houses, we

protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not

enough. I was
in my bed, around my bed America

was falling: invisible house by invisble house by invisble house --

I tooka a chair outside and watched the sun.

In the sixth month
of a disastrous reignin the house of money

in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)

lived happily during the war.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine