time, rejection, discouragement, and the inevitable practicalities and detours (some of them fortuitous), as well as wasted energy, the slow seepage or sudden shift of interest, premature death, burdensome debt or better offers, usually cure the problem of overpopulation

Saw a youtube of a CNN screamfest last night, a four-on-one shitlib beatdown of a crackerbarker, when crackerbarker said Harris need be on live microphone more if Harris wants to win the crackerbarker was not wrong regardless the heckling shitlib cawing. I completely and comprehensively understand why people despise motherfucking professional shitlibs

Here's the guy many motherfucking professional zionist shitlibs are still angry motherfucking zionist Kamala Harris didn't name vpotus signing American bombs about to be shipped to Israel to be dropped indiscriminately on Palestinian and Lebanese women and children

If I was offered the next twenty-five years of my life in good if gently declining physical and mental health, disc golfing, hiking, finally taking up gardening then peaceful death in sleep at ninety, in a community of like-minded, isolated but not hermitage, cut-off from anything and everything clusterfuck, an undiscovered Micronesian island a three hour tour away, would I?





Today in Rhetorical Questions, that old gag. Above's two months old and now two months drier so not the breathing, seething Aoxomoxoa it was when wet, aren't we all, everything I make starts dying the second it's born, relentlessly, drip-by-drippingly, inevitably. Yes, we were stupid not to be hopeless from the start, denial no longer an option. Fleabus be almost done now too, months if not weeks, fine metaphors abound

 

The accumulation of unsolvable problems
Overlapping crises: "solutions" are now mutually reinforcing problems
The Decline of the U.S. Empire: What Will Happen Next?
The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian
"This video demonstrates the physical manifestation of the difference between Jews and Zionists. If you’re conflating the two, you’re parroting Zionist propaganda"
A plan to liquidate northern Gaza is gaining steam
Israel Launches Massive Bombing Campaign in Lebanon as 'US Weapons Continue to Flow'
The War About Palestine Has Reached Its Next Stage
Lebanon on the Brink of War: Imperialism is to Blame
Consequences of the Israeli Pager Explosions Attack
"What the attorney general of Michigan says below never happened. It’s entirely intended to mislead and confuse people. A lot of reporters and Democrats I speak to don’t appreciate the consequences of mainstream Democrats flagrantly lying. A profound threat to a just society"
Your death will serve as its own justification
Where are these headlines in Western media?
Is culture dying?				➡	"Deculturation is what happens when Culture, which is bigger than you, is replaced with a system of revisable cultural codes
Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools
What the New Right Wants
Power lines			➡	"The chief irony is this: the same bourgeois virtues that have helped Democrats to dominate the technology sector and the education system, and to make new inroads into the security state, have become liabilities in mass political combat"
The single most repugnant political figure of my lifetime
The Everyday Resistance of Slacking Off at Work
Genocide Gentry				➡	"Behind closed doors, these same universities are hosting executives and board members of the companies manufacturing the weapons used in these attacks as board members, trustees, and fellows.”
Staten Island’s politics of resentment
The Great Driving Right Show
Supreme Court Lawyers Will Say Anything to Keep the Justices Happy
Maggie's		Avedon Carol's occasional links
Rest in Power, Fredric Jameson
What do Metaphors do: Gamoneda vs Tranströmer
Bronk, for those of you who do					{ feuilleton }
New Cure album?			Olga Tokarczuk interview

A PLAGUE OF POETS

C.D. Wright

A question posed to Flannery O'Connor, as to whether writing programs stifled writers, drew the famous, tart rejoinder that in her opinion they didn't stifle nearly enough.

Even if, as it is often said, there are too many of us—poets, that is—that the field is too crowded (as opposed to too many hedge-fund managers or too many pharmaceutical lobbyists or too many fundamentalists), time, rejection, discouragement, and the inevitable practicalities and detours (some of them fortuitous), as well as wasted energy, the slow seepage or sudden shift of interest, premature death, burdensome debt or better offers, usually cure the problem of overpopulation. In other words, there are plenty of natural predators.