- Poor rural whites are dying of covid while denying the disease exists (apathy is a disease) and BlackRock enjoys a profitable pandemic
- I think the health threat real but I've an 88 year old father, I work at a university, my wife and daughter are public school teachers, I worry the worse-case simultaneously aware of the work
- I'm positive our shitlords have been, are, and will continue to monetize this plague (and employ the most brilliant and hopefully (for them) equally amoral actuaries, algorithmists, accountants, and assholes to study the current plague for more squeezable drops of blood, yes, but more to learn how to monetize the next plague better). Perhaps I've mentioned this in like sentences before.
We drove to Bucklodge Conservancy Friday and Little Bennett yesterday, we exit 270 north at Maryland 121, Exit 18, Clarksburg for both, on the west side of northbound 270 in Clarksburg is an outlet store eyesore and disgrace (but not as big a disgrace as what developers have done to and worse have planned for beautiful rolling farm land), the parking lots were full both days, the line to exit onto 121 south towards the outlets backed up almost to 270, and getting onto 270 south on way home we could see the outlet's poorly designed and worse executed roundabouts jammed and blocking through traffic, of course, I think of that same song too every time, that's Little Bennett above and below, I found Earthgirl's trolls she'd enshrined in a tree knob on Tobacco Farm Trail at Little Bennett about six months ago, missing a month ago, I saw what looked like cotton candy at tree bottom, tiny happy needed miracle, both reinstalled
- Mocotrails have many tree knob and tree hollow shrines, it's very cool
- A poem about my complicity
- Anewpoem
- So yes, our shitlords are worse than the plague, I can't kill the first, don't want to die of the latter
- The bioweapons of culture war
- Your president-elect
- Your obamassasinated candidate
- Spigot wars
- Your president-elect
- This week's music from my shelves and crates deliberately sought out, there's new Cabaret Voltaire, the song above the poem, I went looking for my old Cab Volt
- Final assault on the living planet
- Why twitter is (epistemically) better than facebook
- Maggie's weekly links
- { feuilleton }'s weekly links
- Rereading Eno's diary
- Bobby just fell down the elevator shaft and Dhalgren I've failed, or at least set aside, it's boring, it's a fucking lecture, though I did read and love Ohle's Motorman, I had not heard of it but now recognize how often it has been riffed on, alluded to, and ripped off in fiction written after it I read before I read it
- I *almost* love Cab Volt, I thoroughly respect and deeply like Cab Volt
POEMS, SUNRISES, AND PRECEDENTS
Ed Roberson
On sonnet form
Would you blame one of us hillbillies for dying from the flu?
ReplyDeleteI said "and" not "or." Not one without the other.
DeleteCool about your complicity at C4SS. There's this Eno doc from '73 that's been on the Yootoob for a couple of weeks. I'd seen it hovering for a while but ignored it because I thought I'd seen everything, and I'd read the diary from '90-'91 as well. I finally watched it and couldn't believe all the great interview material (much different detail on a couple of stories I'd known from a 24-year-old, studio footage one'd be sure to have seen had it existed, which also adds aural context with the player featured in the studio being higher in the mix than on record, and much of a Roxy version of Remake/Remodel I'd never seen before (similar but not the same). https://youtu.be/f0_XIdbx6eY
ReplyDeletei lived in a town in appalachia for several years -
ReplyDeletei moved there from new york state
soon after i got there i was told about the difference between a yankee and a damn yankee
https://tinyurl.com/notanative
eventually i moved to a more northern state