Let's ban...

..as if we can.

Let’s ban thinking. Whatever good came of it? All good that came, has come of inspiration and dreaming. Let’s daydream instead. Let clouds float in and out of our heads. Let them rain instead of us tearing. Let’s externalise all our emotions, like we do in poetry.

Let’s ban everything that is not poetry. Prose is too dull, too tedious. Why should we ever have to read long sentences that always follow a straight line to the next? Let’s share poetry like grace over breakfast, over lunch, over dinner. Let it be thankful like Mary Oliver’s poetry, touched by God and grace and gentleness.

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Let’s ban unkindness, and everything else that comes of it - from casting others out to genocide. Let’s ban “I am better than you”. What would happen if we banned “You” and “I” and used only “We”?

Let’s ban boredom. Let’s reinvent writing, drawing, painting, playing, talking, meeting, and even sleeping. Let’s find things to do with this unlimited limited time.

And let’s ban banning. Who should ever have say as to what should not exist in this wide and awe-inspiring universe?

‘prompt’ed by

Khyati Parekh

alongside

Namit H