enter only

if you have never placed hands on a single gun

enter only

if not a single factory farm animal has ever passed your teeth

enter only

if you are a citizen of a place without crimes against humanity, without genocidal history, without imperialism

enter only

if the language you speak has never spoken crime into existence or war

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do places of grief & gathering say that?

would not these places be forever empty if they did?

imagine if those were the conditions to enter a graveyard or memorial park

the dead would rather have us, i think

then have us too guilty, too ashamed, too broken to even bring ourselves into remembering enough to carry them with us, carry them in

i dont think the dead are picky

i dont think the dead are complicated

i think they smile at being remembered

by anyone under any circumstance who simply cares