the lab school kids' day of the dead skulls were either melting or being crushed by the haters. it looked like both. the haters were definitely here, maybe only a small swarm, maybe just teenage hate, but they're here among us and they can't be voted out. i took one small green skull melted on one side, to save it.

but why do they choose to hate, rather than elevate and educate. do they think they'll get love from the system that hates? i don't get it, and i don't want it and can understand why people give up on a system dedicated to hate. i can understand giving up, but not hate. hate is suicide.

but i do understand where the hate comes from, from the absence of love and the teaching of love. the haters can't stand the love they can't have. even though if they knew they could have it it's never too late. it's really dispiriting though, even if you got some love in your life, to live in a country that incites and profits from war and prison and systemic hate.