f{"id":28959,"date":"2023-10-09T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28959"},"modified":"2023-10-09T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T03:45:22","slug":"an-open-letter-to-alisa-zinovyevna-rosenbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/09\/an-open-letter-to-alisa-zinovyevna-rosenbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"AN OPEN LETTER TO ALISA ZINOV&#8217;YEVNA ROSENBAUM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Mike Cecconi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-9.png 330w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-9-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-9-124x150.png 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>we are all majestic<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>libertarians are just fascists who want to smoke dope<br>allied with churchies who honestly believe smoking dope is worse than<br>being a fascist<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>I will not be measured by the weight of my inheritance<br>or the inheritance that I leave<br>my investment portfolio is immaterial<br>never mind that it is also non-existent<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>I will not heap cruelty upon others just to prosper<br>I&#8217;d rather be kind than rich<br>I&#8217;d rather be humiliated than not be humane<br>everyone&#8217;s made of all the same stuff<br>I won&#8217;t deny it like you do<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>every soul is an irreplaceable artifact of joy<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>you will not judge me with your black corroded heart<br>life is not a high-yield architecture<br>life is not some stockyard atrocity<br>life is a short sweet shared breath<br>spit into the face of an absent god<br>ruminated in four stomachs for eighty-some-odd years<br>and manifest in our few moments of grace and peace<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>physical achievement is largely luck or cheating<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>power is the residue of arrogance and horror<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>every apple orchard refutes you with its beauty<br>will not be swallowed by the maw of industrial convenience and pitiless<br>entitlement<br>will shine beyond your childish conniving<br>will love despite the depths of your shallow want<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>starving children disprove you every morning with their longshot hopes<br>with their ability to smile through suffering<br>you want to rule a feudal fiefdom, they just want to eat tomorrow<br>high school musicals in Iowa puke upon your shoes<br>old blind men in Memphis obliterate you with the blues<br>lovers trample the corpses of your savage bullshit ideas in the night<br>but all I can say is &#8220;fuck you&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fuck you Ayn Rand<br>Fox News knows they&#8217;re joking<br>the greasepaint is obvious<br>your philosophy is a vaudeville act at best<br>the maudlin run-on press releases of a false genius wannabe princess<br>the higher-ups know that it\u2019s all just jest<br>and no they don&#8217;t take bets<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>with the rushing waters of gentle charity<br>with a plea for pleasant parity<br>fuck you hard<br>fuck you with a rusty chainsaw<br>our guitars will overwhelm you<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>teenage kisses overwhelm your illness<br>fireflies dissipate your parochial poisons<br>our hearts eclipse the value of your precious petrodollars<br>fuck you Ayn Rand<br>the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us we don&#8217;t exist<br>and I call bullshit<br>starting now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(from OCCUPY WALL STREET POETRY ANTHOLOGY at <a href=\"https:\/\/peopleslibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/occupypoems1.pdf\">https:\/\/peopleslibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/occupypoems1.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Mike Cecconi fuck you Ayn Randwe are all majesticfuck you Ayn Randlibertarians are just fascists who want to smoke dopeallied with churchies who honestly believe smoking dope is worse thanbeing a fascistfuck you Ayn RandI will not be measured by the weight of my inheritanceor the inheritance that I&#8230; 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