CAPITALISM CALLS POETRY LAZY

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Welch engages with the edges of the United States in these biographic poems about their kidnapping their difficulties as a gay/trans individual and their alliance with Witchcraft. Among unstable poems and juxtaposition Welch searches for the poetic body just beyond the physical one That I am challenged to embody my own Nature othered by forces outside myself to reassert a peace my peace that was dirtied for the benefit of privileging males is an undertaking I revisit and resent daily. This act of returning to myself by rejecting the world is dark and is the source of my power as a Witch. These practices speak throughout my poetry.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As the title nails down Welch also impugns upon the intentions that capitalism harbors against us the living. For Capitalism to work it teaches us on many levels to disconnect from our natural empathy from the homeless from the countries we're calmly bombing and from the other beings sharing our world. The narrative of laziness turns connection to cruelty and poetry exposes such fictions. Poetry furthers our empathy with one another including our empathy with everyday objects. Poetry isn't lazy-it never rests.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>