Territorial

Let’s get territorial | mark our lines in sand | build walls along a predetermined perimeter | erect watch towers and occupy our time | use language like bricks | mask our faces in paint and non-expressions | construct dams in waterways | let’s just call all this shit ours | let’s just keep us in and keep them out | —create an enemy out of nothing; create fear from nothing | let’s get on terra firma | demarcate the land that we live in | call my people ‘my people’ | let’s protect what we have and detract from what we don’t want | let’s yell our assertions and demands and whisper what is holy | let’s learn the difference of loam and peat and dirt and soil and sand and land and earth | let’s lie on the grass that grows in the mud that keeps down the rocks and water and something deeper | this is territory.