Planetary Death Is a Hopeless Drug Addict

Azad Ashim Sharma

Self-appointed judiciaries of counterculturecomplain the twelve steps I take are cultish& I should blame total administered society.Well I’m not so sure but I know loving ourselves militantly from not-being grotesque,misanthropic with self-sabotage. We foundthat fourth dimension insightful to disavowcapital, its benthos. I pick up more resentmentsfrom the unregulated newsreels.I can communicate today and deep the painwithout a blind code, scabrous or rusticated.You need to know how much I resent the worldfor its beauty is right at my throat burningaway my tobacco skin. I am decayed in floodsheld perishable by extraction’s funk in the seasas nuclear excrement defenestrates coevalsof contrarian data, all those staccatos of denial.I reach out as worldliness ready to throw awaymy dissolute self-turned hurricane to disaster’smanhandled future opened on the returned past.I’m sick of fighting currents, toxic with our needof currency & hope for revolution. It is too lateto be stuck at a party putting apathy to rightsor knelt at your altar praying for an easy day.                                O this scene of death.                                The clouds are full of lightning,                                we are the wired.

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Azad Ashim Sharma is the director of the87press and serves as poetry editor at Philosophy and Global Affairs and the CLR James Journal. He is a PhD Candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books, 2024). His second collection Ergastulum: Vignettes of Lost Time (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) was the recipient of the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award. He lives in South London.

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"In the literary world, where writers soundwave the lyrical self, Azad Ashim Sharma stands out. As a poet and thinker influenced by Theodor Adorno’s philosophy, he explores the nuances of writing not just poetry but living within this psychological space, one that resonates with a collective and historical consciousness."
–Arthur Kayzakian

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