Durkheim & The Flat Globe
we talk about Durkheim
religion suicide pathos
research affect causality
academia is a swiffer duster
cleaning out cobwebs in my brain
flipping on switches of electric
pulses – zaps like skipping ropes
pounding concrete repetitious exercises
that hurt a little because it’s
all so big the information
the implications
the lightning-bolt terms
makes my brain do that thing
when it visualizes a globe &
cuts a line down the ocean
then lays the world flat so
my heart can see how we’re
all connected how water & land
air & sky are languages
that everything is covered
in stardust & centred with heat
VANESSA SHIELDS 