I want to live in un-interesting times.
The interesting times just don't suit me anymore.
I want to wake up every day
Drink my coffee
Go to work and help kids
Or draw and photograph
Walk through forests
Pet cats and read books
And I don't want to think about suffering
---Any suffering---
I don't want to think about animals or people dying.
Or billionaire capitalists
War and climate change
Diseases once eradicated now
Growing stronger in bodies
Homeless people freezing on streets
People with no body autonomy
Refugees being turned away
Elon Musk buying himself another big toy rocket ship.
I am sick of the interesting times.
I want to look up at the clouds and breathe deeply
Not fearing all of the chemicals in the air or the water I drink
Or the vegetables and fruits I eat
I want to go to art galleries and concerts
Take long bike rides through the woods and
photograph mushrooms.
I want to spend whole nights drinking tea and
Listening to Christina Vantzou's No 2 or
Watching a Kaurismäki film with a favorite feline on my lap or Reading a Bae Suah novel in the bathtub.
I can amuse myself.
Make my own fun.
I don't need the "help" of egomaniac politicians to make it interesting.
So, I wish they would all just leave us artists alone.
Happy New Year.
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