Punk Fam

 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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