so sober and furious and stubbornly ready
coruscating
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolaño
City of Bohane by Kevin Barrygrim and grimmer, a president tells the wage slaves to get back to work, a governor sends in the National Guard when some workers at old folks' homes ask for a raise, our ally sends our missiles at children, apartheid is just a facet of genocide, an easing in, a settlers' tactic, and those savvy Americans slyly stock up on beef and gasoline
we must shock this nation with the power of love
Democracy by Joan Didion
The reason the great heaviness comes from Seattle and Portland is that these kids know that *no matter* how sweet and empathetic your populace, how many canvas shopping bags and supportive yard signs they sport, these folks will lick boots and pay the pigs OT on OT, because there was a quiet coup a long time ago, and the death cult runs this country, you work for them and at their pleasure. their violence assures consent, their tanks will roll and they operate on pre-Hammurabi rules, the ziggurats were built while you weren't looking
we had a respite from authority while they mapped the earth, while they itemized every wrinkle of the surface and estimated if you add value or subtract, and how much clean-up you'll require, if the nü-bees will nest inside your skull
god bless the kids in Myanmar, the kids in Colombia getting killed in the streets, in 'clashes' where the cops always manage to walk away ok, where the sacrifices are executed, blood magic is the underwriting of the currency, the iron in the iron bank is from your sweet hemoglobin, washing with that of your allies, distilled down into glass capillaries that run through their walls, pulsing with stored power and menace, the threats on your life are singing from the CB radios, from dispatch desks, on frequencies that you legally can't monitor, lest you get wise and run
if you can't remember if you're in Latvia or Lithuania but either way you have to be in Estonia by dawn you better ipecac right quick and find a Frenchman that still drives stick
the feds collected baby teeth in St. Louis, for decades. radiation exposure tracking. marine biologists just found 25K DDT barrels on the ocean floor off LA.
if you can't identify your enemies, how the fuck are you going to identify your allies?
