Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton
First Presidential Debate, 2016
Broadcast by NBC at
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY
i just—
smashed an empty
diet coke fridge pack and
threw it at my lover in an argument
about donald trump. Suddenly we debate
Black Lives Matter and KKK like it’s 1960.
Alabaster dripping, whipping, slipping from
my hands : red, yellow, Blue Man, blackson
polljack. i just— stormed out to smell my
lavender, rosemary, thyme to bring
me back to this provincial
street in Iowa :
where no one is
marching, no
one is killing,
no one is drowning—
but where it matters.
Notes | The Syrian war and racial tension and police violence in the United States were major issues during the 2016 Presidential election. | Black Lives Matter is a controversial campaign created in 2012 after Floridian Trayvon Martin’s murder. George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder after a highly publicized trial. In opposition to Black Lives Matter, an All Lives Matter movement has risen. | The white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan, or KKK, endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential election. | Blue Man Group, named to evoke the word human, is a permanent theatrical production in a handful of US cities and Berlin that appeals to a diverse audience. | Jackson Pollock (dyslexically referenced as ‘blackson polljack’), American abstract expressionist painter of the 1940s and 1950s most famous for his drip paintings, created by splashing paint on canvas.
Lindsey Thaden "Destroyed by Madness"
March 8, 2017
