Against the Plane of Gravity
We have to keep trying.

From the moment we are conceived we work against the plane of gravity. It pulls us toward it, whips us around the sun, is part and parcel of the Earth without which our bodies disintegrate.
We can’t live without it. When we go to space we can’t reproduce it yet and we suffer the consequences.
I push against gravity as it pulls me down. Even with scoliosis that means I can’t earn my living as a dancer, I can walk because of it. My skeleton knows this better than I do, operationalized by muscles and connective tissue. I was born close enough to normal to move horizontally, upside or downside, on my feet or on my head
as I will when I will.
What is the plane of gravity if you are human? It is our laws, customs, taboos, the beliefs of society that drive or repel us,
those that keep us upright or standing on our heads, those that insinuate themselves into our everyday lives and insist we obey and conform,
but are they like Earth’s gravity in substance
not just in form?
I, for one, stand with those who are disadvantaged in their ability to stand against human gravity, to move at will, to attract those who would move together. I have proof of it in a judge’s decision to keep me out of US government because I smoke so little weed in a lawful manner in a state apostate with respect to the US government on this measure that I am defined as not suitable to serve that government or any of its appendages. I cannot walk against that plane of gravity and I hold its proof to my chest and in my records to show what will happen on Earth to me and all those I am like, who have stood in this spot before and with me and protest the government on these terms. We stand as one. We are protected in time by this fact, even if those who contest our right to hold a job or exist say their plane of gravity is the only one in town.
We are just a small number of folk who stand against human dictates that serve as gravity. There are many. LGBTQ+ are kept out of churches, governments, and societies the world over. Who else? What else? Depends on the society and what they want and are willing to hurt and kill to have. Sure, the homeless, sure the disabled, sure those who hold different beliefs than their societies, like women and children are equal to men.
Right now societies the world over want money, precedence, and attention and they are willing to hurt and kill to have these things.
To stand with the Earth’s plane of gravity is to stand with the forces that produce all of us, right, left, and center. It is to stand with the Living, it is to ask what that actually means. In this space all of us belong, all of us have the right to live, and all of us are why this planet is alive
and not dead,
swirling around a star that is our solar host
in this billions of years-long journey. For their sake, we can never give up. We can never stop trying.

