national anthem hearer

• The Bannon/New Yorker story is dead where I read - I expect it still dominates places I'd expect - and the Kaepernick/Nike story is dead where I read - I expect it still dominates the places I'd expect.
• Only the K/N story interests me.
• I have no idea if Kaepernick is a good quarterback though I follow the story because Fuck Helmetball and I've read enough he'd have a job but and have !all! faith the reason he's unemployed is exactly the same reason everyone knows he's unemployed.
• Nike using Kaepernick (and Kaepernick taking the money) to capitalize on "resistance" strikes me as a brilliant business decision by a company that makes billions on sweatshop labor, 
• a metaphor abounding without Motherfucking Helmetball, a fine metaphor abounding with.

• I ask myself the xth time, why don't I love Spoon, I should love Spoon, everyone who knows me and loves Spoon doesn't get me either.
• Typed at 2020 EDT 9/4/18: just saw tweet - some dumb patriotic racist lit his Nikes on fire while still wearing them, dumb patriotic racist now in hospital with 3rd degree burns, and it gave me no motherfucking joy for whatever that's worth even after he tweeted out photos of his burns pretending he meant to do it.
• Belabor Day Is 20/20.
• Grotesques.
• On Ashbery one year after his death. 
• Ashbery isn't difficult unless you insist it be.
• Freddy Mercury, born 72 years ago today, I've been nattering to myself about hagiography lately (more songs click Queen tag).

BEAUTIFUL HABIT

Tom Raworth

greetings

as the door opened

ticking

              

please listen to this

food alone for all

the f.b.i. will continue

              

maybe you dozed off

i hung by that phone all night

suppose he talks

             

*

          

vida

 

later

 

aria

            

*

            

once upon a time

not looking for any thing

            

*

                

you’re on

your own

it’s off

it’s on

             

*

        

perhaps it means

ragged like that

golda my-yeer

         pre-meer

             

*

             

and pour the old box

down a drain

           

*

            

too  much news

said the news

             

*

           

r e  o l e

          

*

           

it’s us

or rust

listener

           

*

            

deep

 

personal

 

regret

 

looking

 

up

 

monday

              

*

             

we can save

your head or your body

we can shave

           

*

          

even

his admission

is

a subtle lie

             

*

             

in suspense

what is cut into

the smallest of the

           

*

               

grinding

 

to fill

 

a prescription

 

*

            

drum to the wobble and a roll on the sea

come to mind an article of light

distance through distance unfinished

               

*

              

piano

            

*

              

willing to believe

           

*

           

national

 

anthem

 

hearer

              

*

             

perfect rhyme to some

 

all cars

 

kept in doors

           

*

            

sophisticated

newsmen

show how

it could have been

           

*

          

retreat

from the swiss

legation

           

*

           

numbers

for an event

 

*

                

corruption

why not?

 

*

          

infinite

 

detail

 

is no more real

           

*

           

thought

 

             against

 

                          power

           

*

               

answer

 

 

it

              

*

        

hooked

to just another

piece of tape

hooked

to just one more

little piece of tape

            

*

              

through words in to

no

record

             

 

*

                

writer

 

righter

 

riter

          

*

                   

am:

              

i

                 

on replay?

               

*

              

all you

do is

expand

the system

              

*

               

a polaroid

of la

with the wrong

voice print

        

*

    

astronaut

amazed

at what

was expected