we bleed for ideas
c}{imps 8 my ears
The letter j is didactic as fuck
It just happened one day that i no longer felt strong enough to convey a specific message.
For centuries we had drawn i as j to signify the end of a numeral. For millennia we enslaved each other arbitrarily,
choosing to write i as j to signify the end of freedom, which was a temporary effect of circumstances,
reversed through compassion, education, a change of grammar.
A sljp of the pen was really all that stood between an i and a j.
These days we act like it’s always been there, jesus and john, and james, we say they are thousands of years old. yeshua, iohn, iames.
No jesus is older than four-hundred-ninety-eight.
These days we act like race has always been older than the hallowed letter.
Or js jt that beljefs are sharp knjves that cut thjnkjng,
jnto ljttle pjeces.
thjnkjng.
That we bleed for jdeas, ljke fjsh hooks,
Once they have become
lodged jn our flesh,
pajnful to remove—to accept
especjally to those
who plunder
benefjts
from
thjs pjercjng iab,
havjng fjgured out
a way
to outsource
feeljng anythjng
your flesh js our flesh
your flesh js our flesh
on hooks, unljke i’s
js not arbitrary