Fear Jam

Poetry inspired in part by the insightful book by Byron C Clark, FEAR: New Zealand’s hostile

underworld of extremists (2023)

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ALT TEXT OF IMAGES: the gallery shows 6 graphics with words of a poem. The words are on shades of orage and read:

Fear jam+ 1

I am on this land / ironically / positioned

oppression / impression imprint inprint

FEAR

So easy to be ignorant

Fear jam+ 2

relativism

positivism

recidivism

negativism

Art-ivism: The practice of promoting a political agenda through acts considered to be art,

such as the defacing of advertisements.

Art + Activism

Women + Art + Activism

Women + Art + Activism + Art + Activism

waaaa

Fear jam+ 3

A valley running west to east down HawkstoneStreet (B) was also filled in. steady reclamation (C) into Wellington Harbour has separated Thorndon

from the coast.

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your-council /meetings /Committees /Strategy-and-Policy /Committee (/ 23 /files /Thorndon report

Fear jam+ 4

I think of how my parents are still alive

peanut butter,

zucchini jam

smash the state,

treasure the politician

paint the blooms,

share the recipe

Fear jam+ 5

I get lonely

but I hate all people

I get guilty

but I could knit a slipper

I get fat

but I control time

I get anxious

but I can get drunk