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Remember when things used to not be evil? When life was normal? I overheard someone saying into their phone the other day, and I started to silently agree, then stopped.

Normal used to mean my grandmother couldn’t vote, my mother had to hide being pregnant with me to keep her job, that if you were gay you pretended you weren’t. Normal used to mean the legal enslavement of Black people.

If neighbors being abducted from their homes and sent to “detention” centers without due process begins to feel normal, if tiny children being gunned down in our schools begins to feel normal, if .1% of our population hoarding over half the money while most have no safety net at all begins to feel normal, then what’s evil?

the demons were never, by Shilpa Kamat 

evil just regular
                                      people who prayed
                                      and were granted

thunderbolts
ethers
                                      before their hearts
                                      were grown
enough to keep
up

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