Having Proceeded By the Logic of Your Personal Vacuum You Will Perceive Your Continued Lightlessness as an Excuse to Go On

• Reminder from yesterday: Winter woods are prettiest. Gonna go remind myself again today.
• Lamp snuffed out.
• The most backassward fascist ever?
• Psst. They wanted this confrontation.
• Shock Doctrine as political strategy, yo.
• Reminder: Liberals are not brain-dead. They can figure these contradictions out for themselves. As far as I can tell from the way it has been reported, as well as occasional, actual conversations with real life liberals, they tacitly supported the groundwork laid that has led us to the president we have today. I encourage their resistance. But I don't expect it to extend to resistance to their perceived co-liberal representatives whose resistance is even more convenient than their own. Put another way: I have seen no evidence that anyone cared about war refugees much until they were pressed to care.
• Is Liberalism to blame?
• Haitian refugees and Obama. Three months ago.
• Torture never went away. 
• Reminder: fuck motherfucking Democrats.
• Winter is still coming.
• Maggie's weekly links.
• { feuilleton }'s weekly links.
• #639.
• Harry Mathews and John Ashbery.
• Here's Kurt's Derek Bailey birthday show from two years ago. Derek Bailey, born 87 years ago today:

LOGIC

Alice Notley

It was a poem

men took because it said ovary

didn’t take my

political poems

they took the one that said ovary

Are you sure it was because it 

           said ovary?

Yes, for them that’s logical.

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Destroy another

          city 

What 

else 

is war for? So

you’ll go down

each of you does. dies in

                           whirlwind

each of you who does, dies 

          paying

for the pain you experience

         Just that 

and nothing is established

Because I am a woman

Cutting as many cords 

as tie you to me. this isn’t

           anarchy 

it isn’t anything you

           could name

You’re still here 

without ties?

because they were logical.

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Dance little asshole dance

oh he gets elected, like a Calvinist 

He says, I have these guts 

Men, I have these guts.

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Having dedicated whole 

regions to the destruction

          you inspire, the 

logic will be to go on doing it 

doing it. Having proceeded by

the logic

         of your per-

sonal vacuum 

you will perceive your continued

          lightlessness 

as an excuse to go on. having 

gone on 

as you have. And so one continues.

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Lead the boy out of

          the building on fire

his head twisted 

          upwards

all fucked

What else is there to

       know if 

one has gotten 

twisted up 

all fucked

he is a screaming fire

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In the explanations 

of our lives’ experience

they’ve left out this wild moment

the long mirror on the right-hand wall of the

corridor suddenly shattered

I can’t see myself anymore.

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I repeat that I am not frightened

          and why not 

I don’t know 

what my reactions 

are supposed to be.

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        “Please tell me something 

with which I’m familiar.”

isn’t there another part of now