| We hereby announce our unilateral secession from the United States,
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| the state of New York, Tompkins County, our own city government,
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| and the delusion that any membership was ever more than symbolic
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| We secede from democracy, from false choices forced simply to erase possibility,
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| and from the lie that popularity carries moral dimension. |
| No, you do not get a
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| vote in this
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| We secede from capitalism, money, jobs, and impositions on the instinct towards
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| community and mutual obligation. |
| We insist in the face of all evidence that
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| love is a sufficient foundation. |
| If necessary, we secede from evidence
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| We secede from history. |
| We are not the endpoint of anyone’s story.
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| We reject beginnings and endings in their entirety
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| We secede from the future. |
| We have been waiting for it in the rain for too long.
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| The future is not coming; |
| we got stood up
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| We secede from binaries, from the narrow idea that all must either be or not be.
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| We secede from male and female, good and evil, friend and enemy,
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| possible and impossible, up and down, left and right, zero and one,
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| declaring our allegiance to the in-between and outside
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| We secede from wholeness, wholesomeness, holiness, and humankind.
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| Evolve and become unrecognizable. |
| Demand gills, antlers, ink sacs, fangs,
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| talons, udders, spores, quills, a proboscis, and a bioluminescent thorax
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| We secede from the body, from sleep, from ten fingers, two eyes, and one mouth.
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| We are polymorphous, multitentacled, pandimensional, and incorporeal
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| strobelights of blood and supernova
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| We secede from continuity. |
| We embrace events without cause and causes without
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| consequence. |
| We secede from borders, walls, and maps, from time, tempo, aging,
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| and death itself
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| We secede from entropy and the myth of a noble past. |
| It was never better than
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| now. |
| Things do not fall apart. |
| We joyride the widening gyre and smile for
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| photos that may be picked up at the concession booth afterwards.
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| We get back in line again and again
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| We secede from language, from meaning itself, from the myth of individual
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| esteem and self-actualization
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| We experience everything directly and unironically. |
| Sincerity will pervade even
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| our lies, and especially our lies
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| We secede from pants. |
| Seriously, fuck pants
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| We secede from our names, our families, and all coincidences of our birth
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| We secede from ourselves. |
| We secede from desire. |
| We never wanted it in the
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| first place
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| We secede from intention. |
| We don’t mean to—we just do
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| We secede from logical consistency. |
| Embrace your paradox
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| We secede from sanity, a refuge for cowards, pencilpushers, and golfers.
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| We believe completely in every drunkard’s raving
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| We secede from banality. |
| We battle the trite with anti-beauty and by leaping
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| out from behind corners yelling «gotcha!»
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| We will not negotiate. |
| We will not explain. |
| We secede from all secession that
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| does not secede from itself
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| And we proclaim a new Ithaca, a shining city in a gorge, free and eternal.
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| You are hereby granted full citizenship, wherever and whoever you are.
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| You are already here. |
| We are already there. |
| This has always already happened |