where have all the protesters gone? [welcome to the curriculum]

mold on the ceiling in February unemployment in March April evaporated strange I can't remember it who knows who died by may welcome to the curriculum no one knows who you are and you will have to tell them again every day June the screaming started clearly not part of the protests learning what a psych op is a concert that vibrated my room for hours left my ear canals stripped and bare like two popsicle sticks covered in wax dipped to the drum I was scared but not as badly as I would be when the booms came to the street only the military would have that kind of weaponized machinery sonic blasts and sound effects thanks for the PTSD but I had some already I watched through the broken computer screen every single night for something like a hundred and seventy days in solidarity with a community I never got to meet in solidarity with people who seem to be missing in solidarity with people I refuse to forget 27,000 people left since 2020 where have all the protesters gone? you know most people died of COVID in 2021 but there was still almost 1,000 people just last month welcome to the curriculum no one knows who you are and you will have to tell them again every day then the circus spins everything into news stories so important for remembering history so corrupt when curated too heavily nobody wins wars but especially not when they don't even know that they're in one welcome to the curriculum no one knows who you are and you will have to tell them again every day just for them to deliberately forget