#FTC30jours challenge de @feminisetaculture Jour 6: poète Zoe Leonard, celle qui a écrit le poème "I want a president" qui se lit comme un cri du cœur et de rage. Bien qu'écrit en 1992, son poème est toujours d'actualité, à en donner le vertige. Je l'ai découverte grâce à un podcast fait par des queer littéraires américains ( @gayslutswhoread ), qui ont trouvé beaucoup de réconfort dans ces mots après les élections présidentielles de 2016. Plus qu'un poème, c'est un manifeste, un appel à un monde meilleur, un objectif à atteindre. Je vous mets les premiers vers (en anglais, je me risquerai jamais à traduire un tel élan): "I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn't have a choice about getting leukemia. I want a president that had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn't the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids, who still sees that in their eyes every time they lay down to rest, who held their lover in their arms and knew they were dying. [...] I want to know why we started learning somewhere down the line that a president is always a clown, always a john and never a hooker. Always a boss and never a worker, always a liar, always a thief and never caught." . . . . #instachallenge #30dayschallenge #Iwantapresident #wordswithpower https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Ul5KXitDA/?igshid=16nu8wm2n01bd
