Budget Delegations

from June First by Vivat Virtute

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Budget Delegations

Manitoba Heavy Construction squats upon city hall’s chest, squeezing the air from the ways we might care for each other in the days we have left. The mayor leads a prayer to ignore the poor and push the afflicted away, while senior advisors with sharpened incisors distribute their spread sheets that say: roads and police and police and roads, roads and police and police and roads, roads and police and police and roads—that’s where most of our money goes.

Councillor C posts a murderous meme and a couple half-hearted denials, while Councillor B and Councillor D trade their tight white-supremacist smiles. The Free Press reporter’s attention gets shorter than the piece they will hide online—another pastiche of a press-release framing that everything’s going to be fine for roads and police and police and roads, roads and police and police and roads, roads and police and police and roads—that’s where most of our money goes.

No room for research, no food or drink, no thinking something new. No time for anyone trying to show us what love can do. But outside a circle’s surrounding a light and smudging the budget away, and singing goodbyes as smoke hits the eyes of what’s left of a Winnipeg workday.

And we will be here next year.

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from June First, released June 1, 2023

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Vivat Virtute is Christine & John, musicians and cultural workers from Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory, Canada. www.vivatvirtute.com

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