Dissent Jungle

A little bit ago, I wrote a response to an invitation to a week of actions happening in NYC.

I wrote it thru the conversation between a Purple Elephant and a Pink Rhyno.

<Purple Elephant in the room speaking to Pink Rhyno>
Pink is drinking green lake water and purple is carving something out of wood.
They are in the groovy place called Dissent Jungle>

Purple Elephant: Yo homie, Have you noticed that every time there is predictable moment, the big orgs decide to mobilize predictable responses?

Pink Rhyno: Nah, actually, what do you mean Frank? Don't you love week of actions?

Purple Elephant (Apparently Frank): Think about it bro, money and power sometimes collaborate you know? If you were in power and you heard whispers from the shadows that people were thinking of attacking you soon, what would you do?

Pink Rhyno: I would probably get my guns ready, shiiit, aint nobody gonna take my power!

Purple Elephant:  Exactly, and they already got their guns man! believe me! (raises the thing he is carving in the air)... but do you know whats even more effective than that?  

Pink Rhyno: (silence... of the lambs...)

Purple Elephant: Subduing the real anger of the people and harnessing them into safe and predictable boxes (draws a square with his trunk...)  see what I mean? 

Pink Rhyno: ya i guess, so what you saying frank?  You saying week of actions don't do shit? (takes a slurp of now yellow lake water)

Purple Elephant: I'm saying that institutions do these things so the people feel like they are doing something-- meanwhile those in power feel perfectly safe and distant - fukkk that. 

Pink Rhino:  Damn, thats real. and crazy since animals are pretty pissed off these days too--

Purple Elephant: --Damn right--

Pink Ryno: 

My homeZebraGurl went to apply for a job at Barns and Hobos and they said they already had 5 Jungle creatures with Master Celsius Degrees applying for that same bullshit position, so that unless she had her PH.Free, not to bother applying.  Oh and don't forget, they fired our homie Giraffe for being too tall...

Purple Elephant:  There you go, I mean shit man, look around? Shits fucked, prices are rising and I aint getting paid more, are you? Rents going up, schools shutting down, hospital services are ending, our neighbors are getting deported and shit.  Meanwhile we keep on paying for RoboPig to go overseas and kill more Purple elephants and Pink Rhynos! .... like I said, fukkk that.

Pink Rhino: I hear you bro, I hear you... whatchu carving man?

Purple Elephant: Like i said man, I aint playing this little game nomore.  I've been working on this, check it out. (shows off a simple spear with a tooth attached)

Pink Rhino: (spits water and starts coughing) whoa... whatchu thinking?

Purple Elephant: I'm tired of that shit man,  I just think that we gotta do something and that ----wait, woah whats wrong?? your horn is bleeding, u ok???

Pink Ryhno: What?  (looks in the lake a little worried)   Damn, I can't even see my reflection anymore.  Fukkk man, fukkk this water!  It use to be made up of rainbow colors, remember???

Purple Elephant: All the colors that our eyes could see, even some that we couldn't -- i remember, i remember...

shit man, I think you picked up the PlasticVirus,  i'm sorry, i'm really, really sorry... 

Pink Ryhno: (looking scared, trying to wipe his horn on the ground....) oh shit, what should i do?? am I gonna die!?

                                       
                                        Purple Elephant: can i, can i be Frank for a                                          moment?   

                                              (puts trunk on Ryhno's back)

                                Stop drinking that poison ass                                                           water and pick up a spear! 

Pink Ryhno: (stops moving, calms down and whispers)  

"Stop drinking that poison ass water and pick up a spear."


--- give me that spear -- I'm calling the jungle animals.