Leah-Lynn

when they come for you

with a fistful of “legal”

excuses,

covered in camo, bearing guns &

battering rams,

when they handcuff you &

the people you live with,

when they turn your house upside

down &

accuse you of being in places

that you haven’t been,

when they make you aware that

they know what you write about,

what you paint, what you sing about &

that they know who your friends are,

what your ideas are &

that sooner or later

they think they’re gonna get

us all---remember those like

Leah-Lynn Plante who refused to

cooperate,

remember her silence when they

want you to speak &

ruin the lives of all those around you

fighting for a better life,

remember that she’s been locked up

with the key thrown away at 24 years of

age to stare at the wall for at least a year,

remember that no progress has ever

come from complacence, compliance &

convention,

for this is an age of interrogation,

this is an age of rounding up people who

disagree with the status quo,

who refuse to take part in a system

that has more care for profit than

people---

one to follow those before &

one that will be followed, no doubt,

by those to come---

until the empire falls or is

broken apart from within,

allowing the possibility of something new

to grow,

not out of greed & opulence,

but from compassion, intelligence &

honesty.

 

 

write her in solidarity:

Leah-Lynne Plante
#42611-086
FDC SeaTac
PO Box 13900
Seattle, WA 98198