Perhaps You'll Plant a Flower

I posted a flower

to cut the ugliness on Facebook.
I was trying to say Fuck you to power.

Some kind of flower power
made me say ugliness not negativity.
I posted a flower

as an inoffensive way to say both P and Not P—
waving my peony while denying
the nasty face of power.

The Latin for deny is negare.
In the game Yogio, to negate a card is to cause it
not be be resolved—like this image of a flower

posted from my cellular.
The flower is the engram, Black Lives Matter,
coloring the white shadow-brain of power

that uses life to negate life.
NOT Black Lives Matter, because All Lives Matter?
POC lives suffocated in life-denying whiteness?
Fuck you to power!