so this is the sound of you here and now whether or not anyone hears it

George's New Year's song by tradition
They will be glued as one painting on poster board but the scanner I have access to is 17 inches wide, I need 18 or my horns or feet get cut off. Alternatively I can get my hands on 6x6x6 shipping boxes, create a second three-me and make a two-me die
⇧	Today's monologue and not-resolution but promise						⇧
The future of poetry				versus some dope the NYT paid to write a column claiming poetry is dead
Multipolaristas’ Theory of Ultra-Imperialism Doesn’t Fit a Multipolar World
The collateral damage of capital
"Tired of self-abuse, anesthetized by drugs and alcohol, disillusioned white males have taken permanent residence in a conflicting configuration between life as they wanted it and life as it has been. They have been lost in their desperate search for a savior who will restore their (perception of) lost dignity and self-respect, and reclaim, on their behalf, what they always considered rightfully theirs, the privilege of luck."
Why she's glad Joe Biden beat Trump
Lack of good analysis contributes to the decline of "The West"
NATO's business is selling arms, not winning wars
Existential Horror At Wealthy Elite Selling Off Humanity’s Future Successfully Sublimated Into Yelling At Cashier
"A Jewish Frankenstein candidate stitched together from flinty chunks of conservative policy, MAGA talking points and misinformation algorithmically beloved to the roughly 30% or so of Jewish Americans who vote Republican"
Maggie's weekly				"Our system is set up to create mutual antagonism between members of the working class. Meanwhile, faceless corporate executives remain shielded like mob bosses"
14 discoveries about human evolution in 2022
Academia		Bleggalgaze (not mine) (and another reminder why I keep blegroll mortuaries)
Happy four decades, Mr Alarum, Sasha V!
Like a dope I speed-ordered this w/o thinking
Maintainers			Financial Hegemony
The Art of Urine in the Age of Fulfillment
{ feuilleton }'s weekly					Jorie Graham
Typing this sentence at 9:03am January 1, 2023, I've not yet need start my soon-to-be created Dead List 2023, may it be much shorter than the one I didn't create for Death Year 2022
This shitty blog's newest Theme Song and this shitty blogger's 2022 Theme Song, yes, posted *again*

TO THE NEW YEAR

W.S. Merwin

With what stillness at last

you appear in the valley

your first sunlight reaching down

to touch the tips of a few

high leaves that do not stir

as though they had not noticed

and did not know you at all

then the voice of a dove calls

from far away in itself

to the hush of the morning

so this is the sound of you

here and now whether or not

anyone hears it this is

where we have come with our age

our knowledge such as it is

and our hopes such as they are

invisible before us

untouched and still possible