Praise Be Our Ancestors (4 min. 59 sec., 2012) is a live-networked eulogy for Abraham Lincoln and chess player Bobby Fischer. Included in Low Lives Occupy! (a festival of webcam performance responding to the Occupy Movement), it is an oblique meditation on the relationship between people and the ground, humans and animals, and champions and losers—in other words, those power relations that have shaped the Occupy Movement in both literal and figurative ways. Praise Be Our Ancestors is part of my trilogy of short webcam solo performances exhibited in real-time; however, it is the only one that experiments with poetry as political speech. Praise Be Our Ancestors is as brief as it should be.