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Herman Shorts

Herman Shorts

Foundational Concept Entirely Horseshit

yeah, the contract
 
the social one, so
 
long ago supposedly
 
agreed to, we were
 
born instead into. what
 
is that, but slavery? also
 
produce the motherfucker
 
prove such a thing
 
so binding
 
yet ephemeral
 
even exists. no
 
it’s a notion, understood,
 
but it’s then
 
by any metric
 
inherently also not
 
a fucking contract.

(2012)

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