{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"🇰 🇷 🇾 🇵 🇹 🇮 🇽 (npub1f2…5jky4)","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1f2gkzz0lx0z7emr4t6ud9ch404utdp9sv7j2z26nqxjzmvxzd7rq55jky4","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"There will be times, \noh my child, \nwhen it all seems hopeless.\n\nWhen the trees all have QR codes\nand the bank boys and balrogs\nare holding all the cards.\n\nWhen your refrigerator tells you \n\"THE IRANIAN PEOPLE YEARN FOR FREEDOM\"\nand your electric shaver can smell\nif you've been reading Parenti.\n\nWhen you're on a first-name basis\nwith the police surveillance drones\nand your colonoscopy screen\nin the exam room\nis running ads for Northrop Grumman.\n\nAnd it is true,\noh my child,\nit is true that the machine is mighty\nand that its armor is very thick.\n\nIt is true that the bank boys \nhave long fingers\nand they are putting marbles\nin our minds.\n\nThe sky is red,\nand the moon has a FOR SALE sign,\nand parts of Palestinians\nare turning up in our tap water.\n\nBut oh my child, do not be daunted,\nand oh my child, do not despair.\nThere are forces within us\nthe Flock cameras can't see.\nThere are depths within us\nnot even the balrogs can reach.\n\nBeneath all the doomscroll addiction psychosis,\nbeneath all the oceans of trauma and toil,\na creature is stirring\nand opening its eyes,\nits eyes full of primordial déjà vu,\nits eyes full of Big Bang recursions\nfull of eyes\nwatching eyes\nwatching eyes\nwatching eyes.\n\nIt looks at you,\nand you meet its gaze.\n\nEverything goes still.\n\nYou remember what you are.\n\nOh my sweet, darling child,\nyou see it now.\n\nYou see that This\ncould never be contained.\n\n_______________\n\nReading by Tim Foley.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STPDE2kp1s\n#times"}