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Something stirred me about the post, and after reading it several times, I realized it was the word "refuse". It's defensive, it's aggressive, it's about being a block of concrete against the world. It is not harmony. It has the spark of revolution.

And maybe that is what we need. Always need for change. Pockets of revolution that stir up the status quo, like the bursting boils on a diseased body. The boils also destroy the body, eventually.

The question that has been with me all my life is, how can I be a voice without being a loud fanatic activist? How can I nudge change without being at war?

I don't have an ideological answer, just my life, and seeing that by living true to myself, every so often, I said or did something that made a difference; sometimes to one person, occasionally for dozens, once for thousands.

Savage is undomesticated, savage is untamed, savage is living true to my nature, sometimes, loudly.

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I do not lower my voice

As only I can hear the words

As I squirm in a drop of reality

Of amoeba humans without ears

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