OPEN LITERATURE
by The Living Theatre and
the People of Malcolm X Park, Washington DC
during the Know Your Rites Tour, August 2016
Liberation to me is dancing
with strangers.
Liberation to Me is complete
release within Music.
Liberation to Me is people.
What is Liberation?
f-r- to the e-y-e can see
as far from me
to there and back
The realization that all you are,
all you were & all you’ll ever be
is intricately connected to the
universality of all things.
Liberation free to harbour, aid and
abet all external and internal
Health?
SHARE YOUR VISSION OF
LIBERATION:
freedom from oppression,
ability to express
positive energy in any
way, shape, or form
and caste that energy
out into the cosmos
WHAT IS LIBERATION?
Freedom to be
Expression
Self-forgetfulness
Free of system
Awakening to truth
opening to your heart
liberation is like 90 blankets.
you can wriggle around in this
country, but it is impossible to
stick an arm out. “is it
supposed to
be
like this?” has
long been the cry of radical
organizations and “is it
supposed to
feel
like this?” has
long been the cry of radical
individuals. we spend too much
of our time talking about
love, and lend letters the
strength we think we cannot
find, although, in fact, we can.
the revolution will begin when
everyone peels everyone else’s
oranges - when we get there,
the revolution will begin when
we stop being revolutionaries
and start being revolutionary.
liberation can mean a loaf
of bread and as long as that is
true there can be no liberation.
everyone should be able to do
exactly what they want -
our hard-hearted desires are
systemic. Oleanna. Everyone
should allow themselves.
utopianism is a form of
self-preservation and a form
of self-sabotage. Optimism
is the tactic of the masses and
the tactic of those who would
oppress the masses. looking out
at is worlds away from looking out
for. to think of liberation,
to attempt it, to attempt to
know what it means, is day
five. feed all the people. stop
all the killing. too many poets
wont offer to carry a stroller
up the subway steps. too many
radicals dont do the dishes.
liberation is a near-soaring
bird in the chests of the people,
our own ribs are too many cages.
you can never be right and
therefore you already are. use
both eyes. differently. swivel
your mind, because your neck
is no owl. yet. even if
your body is feeling wing.
remember the heart in your
hard parts. knuckle heart.
skull heart. liberation
can
throw
a fist but it doesn't wanna.
I just heard 5 kids yell, “we
have to stick together,” in unison
and that is more poem that
my fingers can before breaking.