kick out the jams, motherfuckers
i used this phrase in an atelier today with a group of women the french call of the 'third age', they are girls to me, rich with their experience & because we have worked so long, they arrive with ease at an excellence, i find difficult myself
but they are not immune to this world fucking them over. they have all lived distressed lives but we transform that slowly into poems, song & stories that speak to a great many people - so i tell them with some insistence - kick out the jams, motherfuckers. do not allow the surface of this world trouble you, it is just surface, it is just agitation, it is just noise
these women in every silence, in every pause, in every breath, in every song teach me the history of france in the most materialist way - of living under the boche as small girls, the unbelievable poverty after the war, a poverty in a fundamental way has changed little
like me, sometimes the surface attempts to steal the sense of our steps but they must kick out the jams, motherfuckers, as i do - to go to the heart of the matter, to survive each day with decency & dignity & to never underestimate anyone, ever
to feel the strength they possess interweaved with the fragilities they have come to know well, wave after wave, over decades
their work today was sublime because they did indeed, kick out the jams, motherfuckers
they give so much in their work, it is not therapy, it is not a hobby, it is the skin that helps them survive this slaughterhouse, i hope i am of some aid in that effort
kick out the jams, motherfuckers
c b septembre 2013
i used this phrase in an atelier today with a group of women the french call of the 'third age', they are girls to me, rich with their experience & because we have worked so long, they arrive with ease at an excellence, i find difficult myself
but they are not immune to this world fucking them over. they have all lived distressed lives but we transform that slowly into poems, song & stories that speak to a great many people - so i tell them with some insistence - kick out the jams, motherfuckers. do not allow the surface of this world trouble you, it is just surface, it is just agitation, it is just noise
these women in every silence, in every pause, in every breath, in every song teach me the history of france in the most materialist way - of living under the boche as small girls, the unbelievable poverty after the war, a poverty in a fundamental way has changed little
like me, sometimes the surface attempts to steal the sense of our steps but they must kick out the jams, motherfuckers, as i do - to go to the heart of the matter, to survive each day with decency & dignity & to never underestimate anyone, ever
to feel the strength they possess interweaved with the fragilities they have come to know well, wave after wave, over decades
their work today was sublime because they did indeed, kick out the jams, motherfuckers
they give so much in their work, it is not therapy, it is not a hobby, it is the skin that helps them survive this slaughterhouse, i hope i am of some aid in that effort
kick out the jams, motherfuckers
c b septembre 2013