Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Potsy the People.

In this episode we have me, Brittany Clinton, Sam with the News as usual.

And this week I'm joined by Danielle Serred, author of Until We Rack in Violence, Mass and

Carceration in a Road to Repair and Executive Director of Common Justice.

Prison produces violence. So, you know, in Common Justice we're in the business of reducing violence.

My piece of inspiration for this week or the world on my heart is actually a poem from Clim.

What's going on, y'all? I have a new poem published in the most recent issue of

Wildness by Platypus Press and I wanted to share with you all.

When people say we have made it through worse before,

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones of those who did not make it.

Those who did not survive to see the confetti fall from the sky.

Those who did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.

I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms meant to assuage my fears.

Pithy sayings meant to convey that everything ends up fine in the end.

There is no solace in rearranging language to make a different word tell the same lie.

Sometimes the moral arc of the universe does not bend in a direction that will comfort us.

Sometimes it bends in ways we don't expect and there are people who fall off in the process.

Please, dear reader, do not say I am hopeless.

I believe there is a better future to fight for.

I simply accept the possibility that I may not live to see it.

I have grown weary of telling myself lies that I might one day begin to believe.

We are not all left standing after the war has ended.

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