Some Sucked Theirs Like the Only Orange

Lordy, a bidenite colleague bitching about Manchin as if Biden isn't delighted to have a Manchin, do you know there are people who still believe Democrats didn't scheme (look at the winnable Senate races Democrats deliberately lost, I said) to be manchinned (blank stare) Why, I asked, would Station Manager Ken delete DJs who wanted to stay but still hasn't filled the WFMU Thursday morning midnight to three shift? (Blank stare) I woke up this morning (I said to bidenite colleague yesterday) with Chinacat from Europe 72 in my head (bland stare)

Free America v Smart America v Real America v Just America
Capitalism: the hell of the same
Debunking the capitalism cowboy
MAN575CHIN			News of a collaboration between Art Spiegelman and Robert Coover
Coover who *I* think any new work kaboomier news than new Dara snore new Dara not kaboom at all				Realism's revenge
RIP J Hillis Miller				☚	Was mid-90s I was in grad school, I had to read, he wasn't as turgid as most
One of my smartest decisions, not pursuing the PhD, for important personal reasons mostly, but I'd be lying if knowing I would never need read Big Brain theories on the novel and poetry ever again was almost incentive enough
Authoritarianism is a symptom of panic
Had to read Stuart Hall too				Dying wetlands		Motherfucking Democrats Motherfucking Democrats Motherfucking Democrats Motherfucking Democrats Motherfucking Democrats Motherfucking Democrats
I'm 75 pages in to the new Dara, it's like all the other Dara's, I respect more than like, admire more than love
I am a fool for jangly shimmery pop songs

DESPAIR

W.S. Merwin

Some lit theirs at both ends.
Some clutched as a blind man does his cane.
Some sucked theirs like the only orange.
Some packed clean shirts and a few socks in theirs.
Some spent their lives looking for theirs and they were
   wearing it all the time
Some neglected theirs but the roots found a way.
Some buried theirs. The stones tell when and where.