The Spastic Clicking of Jerked Knees

• My mother would have been 86 today
• My family packs Father's Day, SeatSix's birthday, my mother's birthday, my parents' anniversary, Earthgirl and my anniversary, my father's birthday into five weeks, first time through without my mother, first time through in time of plague
• So that and the end of the academic year (and anxiety about the academic year ahead)
• To make matters worse,  at work plague has revealed to those above my immediate report that I'm valuable, especially on projects directly related to the plague, I was invisible when present in the building before the plague and am now visible if not in the building because of the plague, I don't mind the work, I hate the zoom but more something I can't type here, I shouldn't have typed this, and won't write in tablet

• Also too the viral Obama and Biden video praising GWB for civility while Bill Barr openly - openly - energetically works to create a police state
• , while... etc, I...
• I finished the rereads of first two of Mantel's Cromwell trilogy and finding myself unable to stop thinking about the new third I started reading it, I can't unsee the twenty pages, not bad, just not now, digest the first two first
• mentioned because (Cromwell had something on everyone even if it was only his thumb) I can't help think Bill Barr when I read Mantel's Cromwell, I wonder if Barr's read all three, sees (a textbook) the resemblance I see, knows the ending of the third
• For the blanks above the Noveller, think that gag I ran for a week when typing about motherfucking professional Democrats.
• My apologies, I hope to unclog and reblog as the plague cog I am, a return to aggressively angry aggravating aggregator soon, or at least by the end of June

HUMAN LIFE

Tom Clark

Always behind my back I hear

The spastic clicking of jerked knees

And other automatic reactions

Tracking me through the years to where

Time’s winged chariot is double

Parked near the eternity frontier

And in such moments I want to participate

In human life less and less

But when I do the obligatory double take

And glance behind me into the dark green future

All I see stretching out are vast

Arizona republics of more