Notice of absence from Tristan Robert Lange
Life is full of seasons. This is a season of transition for me, where I will be moving with my family to a new location. As such, with much logistics to consider, I am doing my best to keep up. Please know if I accidentally don't respond, it is not because I am ghosting or becoming distant. Once things settle after the move, I am sure life will return to some normalcy. In the meantime, and always:
Read 👓, Write ✍️, Rise 🌅, Realize 🤯.
Tristan 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
Life is full of seasons. This is a season of transition for me, where I will be moving with my family to a new location. As such, with much logistics to consider, I am doing my best to keep up. Please know if I accidentally don't respond, it is not because I am ghosting or becoming distant. Once things settle after the move, I am sure life will return to some normalcy. In the meantime, and always:
Read 👓, Write ✍️, Rise 🌅, Realize 🤯.
Tristan 🌹🖤🙏🕯️🐦⬛
the first day of eighteen sixty-three.
a proclamation that all slaves of rebel states
shall be declared henceforth free.
oh shucks. oh me, oh my,
what can be said, but golly gee,
it took a little while...what’s two years
to arrive and give you reason for cheers?
but smiles, silly crocodiles...you’re alive
and can finally say you’re free on this
nineteenth day of June, eighteen sixty-five.
but, if our arrival seems contrived,
wait until we go to concede
the horror you faced while alive.
then we will name it a holiday—
yet racism is here to stay—
while complaining about those woke
over how morally broke
we truly are.
© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, June 19, 2026.
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Author:
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- Category: Sociopolitical
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a great piece my friend, free in declaration but not in reality
Lincoln got the credit but he was not the author but had his arm twisted into signing earlier than he intended by Cassius Clay the namesake for the boxer. A good write my friend.
I a-woke to a glugging sound! lol.
Good Write. A lot of suffering still goes on .
Just because it's on paper don't guarantee execution/espousing of intent. A nod to this excellent poetic sigh. Well, I sigh, this is more of a potent expression!
I got the colour purple vibes in this. Powerful and brilliant. 🌹
A wonderful write, historically based, yet with some hidden humour, like in the wording" silly crocodiles", best wishes and a fave, my dear friend
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