Believe Survivors!
Punk Fam
“People don’t hang
their whole lives
on a music scene,
but we do.”
- Kristina Sarhadi
If you had told me
a week ago that the
poem about posers
I was working on
would turn into a poem
about one of my favorite front men,
I would’ve have believed you.
I would have been pissed,
called you an ass,
said you didn’t know him.
But on Wednesday night,
with a bleak four-sentence statement,
we learned that the band was
no more.
And the grounds of
our scene, our community
started to shake.
In disarray, we thought that the band
had been hacked.
But as time continued on
we learned of a podcast,
the podcast, that would take
our front man down,
tear his façade away,
and reveal him to be
the monster
that he was supposed
to fight with, and for, us against.
And as the support beams
under our scene, our community
faltered, we reached out
and grabbed one-another.
We vowed that this monster
was done betraying us.
We pledged our support
to his victims,
his bandmates,
his crew.
And vowed to hold on to
the music, how it changed us,
and the community we built around it.
‘This is all such
a surreal thing;
mourning the loss of a favorite band,
and at the same time
coming to terms with the fact
that the front man
is a fraud and a predator.’
-Punk Fam Discord
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