#and bc it was a double period yesterday i missed both of what were meant to be the prep lessons

[katastrophic-n3vulaa]

did a rlly quick 2-3 hour analysis of a poem that isnt great but i like the poem quite a lot and also i want it on record that i actually (almost) finished this one before midnight and so i didn't start the second one tomorrow so i am technically on schedule.

poem:

there is a description of the page as well as the text in the ID of the image, and under the cut is the full poem and the link at the bottom of the page to a video of the author reading it, as well as my (pretty shit, but unedited) analysis of the poem.

What I Will

I will not dance to your war drum I will not lend my bones nor my soul to your war drum

I will not dance to your beating I know that beat it is lifeless

I know intimately that skin you are hitting it was alive once hunted stolen stretched

I will not dance to your drummed up war I will not pop spin break for you I will not hate for you or even hate you

I will not kill for you especially I will not die for you I will not mourn the dead with murder nor suicide I will not side with you or dance to bombs because everyone is dancing everyone can be wrong

Life is a right not collateral or casual I will not forget where I come from

I will craft my own drum gather my beloved near and our chanting will be dancing our humming will be drumming

I will not be played I will not lend my name nor my rhythm to your beat I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance

This heartbeat is louder than death Your war drum ain't louder than this breath.

the link is either here, or you can copy and paste the link:

https://blog.ted.com/text-of-what-i-will-by-suheir-hammad/

admittedly pretty bad and rlly squished analysis (good luck reading my handwriting):

if u want to bother good luck reading my handwriting but pls ignore the end of the summary i dont want to elaborate on something i wont even get to use as notes so i stuff it in my head.

and also yes i know i need to fix the subject matter bit.

i probably wont even use half of this and it also will probably just be glanced over but idk detail bc JUST IN CASE-