growing up we were taught pagan was a bad thing. granny weez said if you're pagan you go to hell, but pagan means from the countryside, and now it seems that was propaganda against the country people. now preservation chicago is advocating the protection of the little green strip of created nature along the lakeshore from the land predators such as the ex-precedential obama fundation. but the land-grabbers have always had the money to do with the country as they will, by imminent domain, self-serving, ceaseless propaganda and the mutating dirty deal. i stand with the pagans and the indigenous living in the forsaken country. and thanks for what you may be able to do for the interior, deb haaland.

Inside ex(ile): tempests and fault lines
are developers’ wet dreams.
A mainland will sink its territory in debt
starve its subjects in the wake of storms
clearing ground for palaces on the shore.

 

                                                                                from Ex(ile) by Desiree C. Bailey