CACOPHONY!
Can I spare one moment of reflection?
What does it mean to reflect on an event when the event is informed by the entirety of a day?
Where does one begin?
I am bombarded by noise itslipslidesupintoitselfclasingreverberatinginto A CACOPHONY
The invitation to slow down and linger. Taking in the ‘visual score’ that remains
‘by neglect, not design. Thank-you covid.
Visual score, an imagined symphony -crescendos, rising and falling is harmony and the drum beats –doom, doom, doom—in –my –head.
Visual score, skyline meets mountains meets shoreline,
Paddles erect to great the (g)hosts.
‘Be my guest, be my guest, put our friendship to the test…’
HEADLINE NEWS: Confronting colonialism causes confusion.
no-daeh- head-on.
Juxtapositions, rear-view mirror perspectives
Look out! Coming in! Coming through! Git-outa-the-way!
Get out of my way, get out of my way, get out of my way, get out of my way, get out of my way
What does it mean to be a Host?
A good Host?
What does it meant to be a guest?
No. wait. an uninvited guest?
I know how to be a guest, my momma taught me manners.
I do not know though, how to be an uninvited guest?
The un-totems of tokenism.
I see, I hear, I feel, I wonder and I taste the bitter pill I must now swallow.
And I lean into Shane Koyczan.
“How to be a person? 1. Find your voice” (2019, p. 21)
cacophony