the original gentrifier, starbucks!? are you kidding me??

Guys, I’m in a Star­bucks right eff­ing now. 

I’m here be­cause I’m a bland per­son with mediocre taste and also it was the only cof­fee shop I could find in the place I’m at. 

I’m not some refugee lov­ing hip­pie for get­ting a cup of fuck­ing cof­fee and none of you are ei­ther for jump­ing up and down cel­e­brat­ing STARBUCKS.

STAR­BUCKS?!

The CEO of Star­bucks com­ing out in pub­lic and suck­ing his own dick be­cause they’re gonna hire ten thou­sand refugees is fuck­ing meaningless. 

It means noth­ing be­cause peo­ple are be­ing il­le­gal­ly and im­moral­ly de­tained in cus­toms in air­ports across the coun­try right now. 

Who knows in six months if even the ‘le­gal’ cit­i­zens will be al­lowed here still? 

Even if I ex­pect­ed the state­ment to be fol­lowed through on (and I fuck­ing ab­solute­ly do not) it changes NOTH­ING about the fact that we have a dan­ger­ous man shit­ting out in­cred­i­bly prej­u­diced and dan­ger­ous ex­ec­u­tive or­ders every cou­ple of minutes.
 

There is no eth­i­cal con­sump­tion un­der capitalism. 

Y’all are shit­ting your pants over some­thing that is as po­lit­i­cal­ly worth­while as if I start­ed huff­ing a he­li­um bal­loon and singing Oh Cana­da in this fuck­ing store. 

You’re be­ing preyed on for prof­its and it’s working.
 
 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2017 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Il­lus­tra­tion by flom­mist Bri­au­na Ru­pert.

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