citizens ho!

yup. every once in a blue blooming moon when i get on here i say something to the effect of: it's time.

well, it's still time.

let me frame this moment: we are a diaspora. who knew why we were all to disperse after the fateful sticky-sweet spring of 2005? since then i've regressed, progressed, gone in circles, ascended to the gods, danced in the fire w the devils, been some places seen some folks been a voodoo goddess a rogue a pirate a scoundrel a hot mama a shy girl a genius a slacker a heroine a homie...

[i'm digging the elipses real hard these days tiona. i really had to come into that one on my own. thanks for paving the way. it's one of those things like billie holiday or led zeppelin, that you really have to grow into. and you were doing it from way back when.]

...but always a CITIZEN.

there wasn't so much that needed to be spoken about it. and still, i think we are reaching into the ether to figure out exactly what it is that wants to be said.

i know this, though: citizens worldwide like dandelion seeds!

appleseed is blowing up the globe! ok?!! geeze.

wizard is cooking up that magic in philadelphia.

dungy and the ant are about to rip africa a new third eye. she'll start from the bottom, i'll start from the top.

that's the moment i'm framing. not to mention the hundreds of people we collectively love, uninaugarated citizens who need no innaugaration. not to mention the thousands of citizens we have never met.

but we four are about to take over this world, and i can only guess it's bc life has longed for us, the world has called her citizens to do their worst. and their best. unrehearsed.

what are we doing with our collective transnational moment is what i want to know. i think the tenets are still as true as ever, and in fact i find them in some eerie ways to be more true. like we didn't even fully know what we were talking about at the time but boy it was talking!!

please beleive i'm going to be a citizen in morocoo. and raleigh. and atlanta. and cairo!! and mobassa! and cameroon. life is too addicted to me man! she don't want to give me up.

and i know you three. and geeze those knowldeges get me to quaking. and shivering. so i know we're going to be citizens...

but is there something particular we're going to speak to the world? and though we will speak it with our unspoken, pre-spoken, and post-spoken lives, will we also speak it into some kind of structure? what does it look like? what's it like to bring the brigade across the world. bc we're not just individuals.

WE'RE a BRIGADE. millions strong.

what do we want to say collectively? and how do we go abou saying it?