Hahahaha, Christ, John. It is also how one handles the pan. Pans don't kill food. People kill food.
I'm not opposed to identifying as a group~ there's real empowerment there. It's a political necessity sometimes. But it doesn't mean that expressing that identity is what makes it art. There seems to be a bewildering, to my mind, confusion in that regard. We (us lefties who also fancy ourselves artists) must be held to a higher standard. Write an opinion piece, protest, write a speech if you want. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive, of course, but, imo, when the individual voice is lost, the poet is fatally compromised.
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