{"id":26568,"date":"2022-10-31T12:45:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=26568"},"modified":"2022-10-31T14:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T21:51:23","slug":"26568","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=26568","title":{"rendered":"Velvet Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Velvet Paintings<\/p>\n

When I was young and there was no internet<\/p>\n

We immortalized our heroes on Velvet Paintings sometimes sold at roadside stands near gas stations and fast food restaurants<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And depending on the size of a free wall in your living space
\nYou could hang one or all of the three martyrs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Abraham
\nMartin
\nAnd John<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our revolutionaries were photographed on wide backed wicker chairs seated next to large potted palm plants under a red black and green flag arrogantly breaking the fourth wall while staring directly into the camera as if to say:<\/p>\n

Try it and find out,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Motherfucker.<\/p>\n

When Martin was killed everyone said:<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll never see another Martin in our lifetime; but, we did get a Barrack and that worked out just fine.<\/p>\n

No offense, Mike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We thought there would never be another George Wallace, too.<\/p>\n

But we got a Trump and suddenly I didn\u2019t drink orange sodas anymore<\/p>\n

or like to play Spades and other card games that used trump cards for victory<\/p>\n

Every hero creates his own villainous counterpart<\/p>\n

at least that\u2019s what M. Knight Shyamalan \u00a0taught us in the new [old] mythological tales.<\/p>\n

We have to stop whats happening before we see dead people<\/p>\n

Everywhere<\/p>\n

And have to paint more velvet paintings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At some point we will discover the MAGA Kryptonite and the heroes, she-roes, and androgens strong enough to wield it.<\/p>\n

Pray Tell and Uncle Clifford come and Z snap these bitches into the Phantom Zone.<\/p>\n

Throw shade where shade is due from the overly long ties to the blaming everything on ANTIFA<\/p>\n

But cast some light on 1\/6 which was truly an inside job.
\nThat\u2019s why Pence told the secret service:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not getting in that car.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The praetorian guards killed Caligula \u2014 maybe Mike Pence\u2019s \u201cmommy\u201d had let him read a history book or two.<\/p>\n

Velvet paintings of John Lennon who once quipped that his back up band, The Beatles, were bigger than Jesus.<\/p>\n

People got upset and I don\u2019t know why<\/p>\n

Because Jesus got a velvet painting, too.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Everything is gonna be
\nAlright\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Sing for us Audre Lord and quench our thirst for Justice with the blood of martyrs and mothers offered in vulval libation cups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Georgia
\nshower us with your labial petals and prove to us that the soft and pliant can overcome the stiff and hard<\/p>\n

Even the idiocy of a football player who never \u00a0sat in a wicker chair in his life but who himself is considered a Bizarro World hero.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust an old sweet song
\nKeeps Georgia on my mind..\u201d<\/p>\n

Memories of familial barbecues on southern home places where you could be poor<\/p>\n

But you were never hungry<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t look back.
\nJust keep looking forward<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We have come so far.<\/p>\n

But we still have a ways to go.<\/p>\n

Velvet Paintings of Fannie Lou who told us to \u201cstay together children she was sick and tired of being sick and tired. Her radio broadcast was silenced<\/p>\n

But we heard her anyway<\/p>\n

The heroes have to be equivalent to the villains and as numerous. Here we are.<\/p>\n

Still together.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need another hero<\/p>\n

we don\u2019t need another way home<\/p>\n

All we want is life beyond this Thunderdome\u201d.<\/p>\n

Where cartoonish carnival barkers sell lies, blood and circuses<\/p>\n

And we painted velvet paintings for the fallen<\/p>\n

To remember.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(By Heidi Lindemann and Michael Perry)<\/div>\n
(Art Credit 1: Radcliffe Bailey,\u00a0Up From<\/em> \/ Nasher Museum<\/a>) (Art Credit 2: Smithsonian Institution<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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