Dear F*ckface, Everyone Thinks You're the Goddess of Compassion but I Nnow You Also Have Piles & a Scarcely Controlled Urge to Sing for a Living

Feb 19

Alice Notley

Dear Fuckface,
    Everyone thinks you're
the Goddess of Compassion
but I know you also have
piles & a scarcely controlled
urge to sing for a living.
So much for you. Here
everything is stupid as I
have a dwindling flu
which necessitates my
finally paying attention to
my dwindling pocketbook.
How about some bucks,
Goddess Baby? any amount
above five I'd appreciate &
continue to light at your
altar the incense I steal
from the neo-Rocky Mountain
healthfood store. I 
still like you either way,

                            Love,
                                      Bubbles

Side effects of Life in the Clusterfuckocene since October 2023:

1. All I paint are self-portrait headshots but now I painted one with legs and feet trying to run from Life in the Clusterfuckocene
2. I tried rereading Vollmann's *The Royal Family* and it sucked, I blame me
3. I tried reading a new novel about a guy working with zoo animals multiple friends recommended and quickly foresaw animal misery and pain and disease and anguish and death and no, no no no, I credit me
4. I tried rereading Pynchon's *Against the Day* and it sucked, I blame me
5. I tried reading Seuss' new collection *Modern Poetry* and it sucked, I blame me
6. I tried reading McSweeney's new collection *Death Styles* and it sucked, I blame me
7. I have listened, in chronological order, to all Swans albums
8. I am reading, in chronological order, all of the ridiculously prolific Alice Notley's poetry
9. I am relieved to hear the one person I really don't want to talk to about the clusterfuck (those of you who were at C and I's wedding know her as "who *was* that woman") is moving to Arizona
10. I cannot, who never could resists collecting links, really can't stop collecting clusterfuckocene links. the more clusterfuckful the better
11. I need reiterate on a daily basis in real life and every post in this shitty blog's life just how freaking hinky and fake this war is and subsequently blurt that our shitlords are defuckinglighted and see this as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to re-paradigm everyfucking thing
12. Poetry I write today is obsolete tomorrow
13. I am playing the best disc golf of my life since I switched to DX plastic for everything but putter
14. I can only process Life in the Clusterfuckocene through painting and because I can only process Life in the Clusterfuckocene through painting I think my painting far more good than it is and this is an excellent fucking metaphor for Life in the Clusterfuckocene

I was gifted the black paper above and have not thought about buying some beyond thinking about it and honestly saying nah. I am considering making the side-effects of Life in the Clusterfuckocene an ongoing gag especially now that I've abandoned so many gags I know I am not morally obligated to continue them. May I reiterate again that our shitlords are prepping us for our enshittification, encrapification, immiseration, and elimination in World War Three?

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FEB 18

Alice Notley

Dear Reginald,
     I still love your body
most aberrantly being con-
sumed with hatred of your
loathesome soul which
refuses to lend me your
body for a single violet
evening of your stay at
our picturesque little
resort which is all that
we have here except for
too briefly you - I keep
your lost or castoff cig-
arette holder the ivory one
with me always but
you are mean, mean, 
mean! Jesus & Buddha
are made nervous &
sad by your cruelty to
humanity, me -

                            Love,
                        Congetta