“
Everyday I rewrite her name across my ribcage
so that those who wish to break my heart
will know who to answer to later
She has no idea that I’ve taught my tongue to make pennies,
and every time our mouths are to meet
I will slip coins to the back of her throat and make wishes
I wish
that someday
my head on her belly might be like home
like doubt to doubt resuscitation
because time is supposed to mean more than skin
She doesn’t know that I have taught my arms to close around her clocks
so they can withstand the fallout from her Autumn
She is so explosive,
volcanoes watch her and learn
terrorists want to strap her to their chests
because she is a cause worth dying for
Maybe someday
time will teach me to pick up her pieces
put her back together
and remind her to click her heels
but she doesn’t need a wizard to tell her that I was here all along
Lady
let us catch the next tornado home
let us plant cantaloupe trees in our backyard
then maybe together we will realize that we don’t like cantaloupe
and they don’t grow on trees
we can laugh about it
then we can plant things we’ve never heard of
I’ve never heard of a woman
who can make flawed look so beautiful
the way you do
The word smitten is to how I feel about you
what a kiss is to romance
so maybe my lips to yours could be the penance to this confession
because I am the only one preaching your defunct religion
sitting alone at your altar, praising you out of faith
I cannot do this hard-knock life alone
You are all the softness a rock dreams of being
the mistakes the rain makes at picnics
when Mother Nature bears witness in much better places
So yes
I will gladly take on your ocean
just to swim beneath you
so I can kiss the bends of your knees
in appreciation for the work they do
keeping your head above water
— Mike Mcgee, “Everyday”
(Source: pigmenting, via onehundreddollars)
![The “final solution (Endlösung)” to “the Jewish problem (Judenfrage)” was formulated on January 20, 1942 at the Wannsee Conference in a villa in the suburbs of Berlin.
“The conference marked a turning point in Nazi policy toward the Jews. An earlier idea, to deport all of Europe’s Jews to the island of Madagascar, off of Africa, was abandoned as impractical in wartime. Instead, the newly planned final solution would entail rounding up all Jews throughout Europe, transporting them eastward, and organizing them into labour gangs. The work and living conditions would be sufficiently hard as to fell large numbers by ‘natural diminution’; those that survived would be ‘treated accordingly.’”[[MORE]]
On July 31, 1941, Nazi leader Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring had issued orders to Reinhard Heydrich, SS (Nazi paramilitary corps) leader and Gestapo (Secret Police) chief, to prepare a comprehensive plan for this ‘final solution.’ The Wannsee Conference, held six months later, was attended by 15 Nazi senior bureaucrats led by Heydrich and including Adolf Eichmann, chief of Jewish affairs for the Reich Central Security Office.
The men seated at the table were among the elite of the Reich. More than half of them held doctorates from German universities. They were well informed about the policy toward Jews. Each understood that the cooperation of his agency was vital if such an ambitious, unprecedented policy was to succeed.
Among the agencies represented were the Department of Justice, the Foreign Ministry, the Gestapo, the SS, the Race and Resettlement Office, and the office in charge of distributing Jewish property. Also at the meeting was a representative of the General Government, the Polish occupation administration, whose territory included more than 2 million Jews. The head of Heydrich’s office for Jewish affairs, Adolf Eichmann, prepared the conference notes.
Heydrich himself introduced the agenda:
‘Another possible solution of the [Jewish] problem has now taken the place of emigration—i.e., evacuation of the Jews to the east…Such activities are, however, to be considered as provisional actions, but practical experience is already being collected which is of greatest importance in relation to the future final solution of the Jewish problem.’
The men needed little explanation. They understood that ‘evacuation to the east’ was a euphemism for concentration camps and that the ‘final solution’ was to be the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews, which is now known as the Holocaust. The final protocol of the Wannsee Conference never explicitly mentioned extermination, but, within a few months after the meeting, the Nazis installed the first poison-gas chambers in Poland in what came to be called extermination camps. Responsibility for the entire project was put in the hands of Heinrich Himmler and his SS and Gestapo.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/163564769eeda5bf16e7b79c8d055267/tumblr_mm1til88cj1sno3zro1_500.jpg)
![Black Dolphin Prison: Federal Government Institution — penal colony № 6 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Orenburg region
Operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service in Sol-Iletsk, Russia, Black Dolphin houses 700 of Russia’s most brutal, life-sentence prisons. In total, the inmates have killed 3,500 people which leaves each convict at an average of 5 victims. There are mostly murders (some serial killers), cannibals, maniacs, pedophiles and terrorists. Denis Avsyuk, Lt. Guard stated that, “to call them people, it makes your tongue bend backwards just to say it. I have never felt any sympathy for them.”[[MORE]]
Upon arrival, prisoners are blindfolded. Each prisoner is watched by at least 3 guards at all time, checked up on every 15 minutes through a window by the guards, and lives in a small, double-barred cell with an inmate. As prisoners are moved between buildings, guards hold them bent at the waist and cuffed—a ‘stress’ position that renders prisoners weak. The combination of blindfolds and this position keep prisoners from “learn[ing] movements, [their] location in the building or on the territory so that if something suddenly happens, the inmate will have no time to think to move in a certain direction”. For daily exercise, inmates pace back and forth in a lowered cage; at the same time, the guards search the room for contraband and ensure the room’s security has been maintained.
No one has ever escaped Black Dolphin and only one prisoner has ever won an appeal. According to Avsyuk, there is only one way to leave—the cemetery.
The above picture depicts the dolphin created by inmates at Black Dolphin.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/281f54e9124e824709ba3e2064ac6ce5/tumblr_mm1s20ebFQ1sno3zro1_500.jpg)
