Propositions on Being Alive - Lilia Marie Ellis

THAT BEING ALIVE IS A LOVELY THING (ALTERNATE PROOF)

Counting the number of propositions like these I’ve thought up in my lifetime; for and against; trying to make up my own mind as everyone must; I have come up with more reasons for loveliness; which; while it doesn’t prove anything; not strictly; nevertheless;

In an innovative poem-essay hybrid, Propositions on Being Alive confronts the alienation of life under late stage capitalism. Drawing from Marxist theory and mystic theology, Propositions weaves personal and political into a raw, life-affirming manifesto for love.

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