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NONO BLASSO
NO C H A RY B D I S P R E S S new york
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to the most profound and necessary word in our vocabulary
NO thank you for standing strong against all unwanted advances
NO
NO What a sound!
Stopping everything and everyone in their tracks.
NO NO NO
NO to your sales pitch
NO to your advertisements
NO to your business
NO to your institutions
NO to your systems
NO to your bureaucracy
NO to your news
NO to your laws
NO to your medicine
NO to your capitalist agenda
NO to your socialist agenda
NO to your communist agenda
NO to your religion
NO to your science
NO to your dogma
NO to your faith
NO to your truth
NO to your lies
NO to your father
NO to your son
NO to your holy ghost
NO to your prophet
NO to your savior
NO to your mythology
NO to your patriarchy
NO to your matriarchy
NO to your morality
NO to your class
NO to your creed
NO to your color
NO to your nihilism
NO to your omniism
NO to your random particularism
NO to your pessimism
NO to your optimism
NO to your bland indifference
NO to your weakness masking itself as strength
NO to your selfishness masking itself as altruism
NO to your stupidity masking itself as intelligence
NO to your cowardice masking itself as courage
NO to your uncertainty masking itself as certitude
NO to your luck masking itself as skill
NO to your prudishness
NO to your hedonism
NO to your confusion
NO to your peer pressure
NO to your threats
NO to your begging
NO to your anger
NO to your joy
NO to your sadness
NO to your jealousy
NO to your confidence
NO to your insecurity
NO to your hopes
NO to your fears
NO to your dreams
NO to your aspirations
NO to your vision
NO to your destiny
NO to your love
NO to your hate
NO to your needs
NO to your wants
NO to your demands
NO to your silence
NO to your ravings
NO to your lunacy
NO to your fantasies
NO to your desires
NO to your interests
NO to your games
NO to your propriety
NO to your impropriety
NO to your bullishness
NO to your heavyhandedness
NO to your delicacy
NO to your fragility
NO to your softness
NO to your loudness
NO to your shyness
NO to your rudeness
NO to your hightone
NO to your lowtone
NO to your sighs
NO to your groans
NO to your tears
NO to your masks
NO to your acting
NO to your drama
NO to your antagonism
NO to your rebellion
NO to your war
NO to your truce
NO to your armistice
NO to your solidarity
NO to your acquaintance
NO to your friendship
NO to your kinship
NO to your good intentions
NO to your thoughts
NO to your knowing and doing what’s best for me
NO to your experience
NO to your history
NO to your legacy
NO to your blessings
NO to your curses
NO to your cures
NO to your actions
NO to your inactions
NO to your apathy
NO to your hang ups
NO to your passive-aggressiveness
NO to your bullying
NO to your pacifism
NO to your violence
NO to your bullshit
NO to your emotional blackmail
NO to your psychic vampirism
NO to all that which I cannot accept
NO you cannot have my mind
NO you cannot have my body
NO you cannot have my spirit
NO you cannot have my attention
NO you cannot have my money
NO you cannot have my time
NO because it’s cathartic
NO because I like the sound of it
NO because it’s better than punching you in the face
NO for no particular reason
NO I don’t have to explain myself
NO because no
and for those who still don’t get it
NO and again
NO
NO