Liberté. Égalité. Accessibilité.
Portrait of a Revolutionary
They stack the oranges
as if uniformity were virtue.
Measure the diameter. Standardize the crate.
Call it order.
But press long enough
and the oil sprays sharp in the air.
Citrus does not consent to compression.
Who is consenting to this.
Fascism is engineered.
A staircase pitched too steep,
rails removed,
the climb renamed merit.
The guillotine was geometry
an angled solution
converting gravity
into level ground.
Correction.
Resistance is redesign.
The unrelenting hand
that widens the doorway
and lowers the highest step.
Let the blade fall
on excess height.
Let what was hoarded
descend.
Liberté.
Égalité.
Accessibilité.