At First, as You Lie in Bed in Your Motel Room or Mobile Home It Merely Disrupts Your Sleep, Your Nervous System. Later You Kill Your Dog and Wife

Done building the latest gridolinks for this barky place, though this time links added since last Saturday in (my head) the chronological order of when I discovered them rather than sorting them thematically per usual as I have every single fucking time not only since I emigrated to gridolinks but when I merely bulleted, and all the monologue in the grid after a link the immediate reaction to that link in real time



These two paragraphs partially stolen from other place. The hexjeff above painted over the days of this gridolinks. These hexjeffs repel people, I’ve been told I’d be a nobodY instead of a nobody if I didn’t post them. The gridolinks calm and corrode and coordinate me and help diffuse my anger, hexjeff’s save me. The above is today's especially fat-assed and angry gridolink’s album cover. Remember when Coil covered Soft Cell? Woke up at 530 this morning with it in my head

I will try to not start a new grid today, wish me luck, I'm curious to see if I start one despite trying not (as opposed to not wanting to, which I will and will need to consciously not) to
"SCOTUS is aiming to undo birthright citizenship and the VRA and keeps gutting the first amendment, while GOP is set to pass a bill that outlaws green energy and kills medicare, so Hakeem is ready to do what must be done: direct all fire at the charismatic leftist promising better through solidarity"
"With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending"
"All fascisms are interconnected as Israel's ambassador to Serbia demonstrated by saying that Srebrenica shouldn't have been adjudged as an act of genocide. Ironically, ultra-nationalists are really internationalists in this particular way"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"They can grovel all they like, the cops can sabre-rattle all the want, the politicians and tabloids can condemn all the want, we're not shutting up. The IDF are genocidal murderers. Death, death to the IDF"
"Fortunately the Democrats are leading the way in critical public messaging about the imputed foreign policy preferences of a single mayoral candidate"
"I can't get over how we're being asked to pretend "Death, death to the IDF" is some kind of hate crime at the exact same time IDF soldiers are telling the Israeli press they're being ordered to massacre starving civilians at aid sites"
FINDING BEAUTY IN FAKE FLOWERS
"This was never said but here it is in quotes on the front page of a national newspaper. It’s a calculated lie and it’s libelous"
"If scandal-plagued Cuomo had won, every major Dem official in America woulda instantly endorsed him. Dems refusing to quickly endorse Mamdani - who has none of those scandals - is a tell about the party's priorities & who they still think they answer to"
Magastan is building a loyal-only-to Magastan police/military megaforce while simultaneously speed-building concentration camps, yo
➥	TODAY'S MONOLOGUE!						⬆
"Yes we must absolutely be temperate and measured in our response to a literal army of occupation literally carrying out a genocide, with the support of our government, which is literally criminalising opposition to this atrocity. I mean, come on, let's be reasonable, eh kids?"
"It's important to understand that Democratic Party elites don't see this as exciting potential. They see it as a terrifying threat. What good is Democrats winning elections if the current elites aren't running things anymore?"
"We have enough information to conclude that the law won't save us"
"The idea that this process might be stopped by a free and fair election in 2026 or 2028 is absurdly optimistic. Unless age catches up with him, Trump will appoint himself as President for life, just as Xi and Putin have done"
➥	Adding, Vance will too if Trump dies
"Why Did a 75-Year-Old Man in Poor Health Just Die in ICE Custody?"
Maggie's		Pale Criminal, pt 2			{ feuilleton }
"The manufactured outrage and obscene abuse of state powers surrounding Kneecap, Palestine Action, and Bob Vylan are all meant to scare you into silence. Because they know they've lost the argument"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it"
➥	My state's senior Senator, not as shitty as most Democrats, thankfully (though I suspect the new junior Senator is going to be a typical Democratic shitsmear if her early voting is a sign
"This will draw no headlines and certainly no outrage, because fundamentally our media considers actual violence against innocent Palestinians more acceptable than violent words against the soldiers carrying it out"
Maybe he's just a bad person
"Democrats who stop doing stuff like this as soon as the winds change are making it *very clear* what we knew all along: that they will only do the bare minimum and only if there are zero consequences to them. the exact opposite of having principles"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"Mamdani gave a nuanced answer about "Intifada" so nobody cares, but here's a Republican Congressman spreading the conspiracy that the Pritzker family, a wealthy Jewish family, is trying to turn kids trans. This is a common conspiracy on the right that combines antisemitism with transphobia"
"By making federal law enforcement nothing but deportations, Trump 2.0 may induce an increase in crime, which the right-wing media distortion machine will paint as inherent proof of immigrant criminality. We have to stop a vicious circle before it starts"
"Nothing to see here, just footage Al Jazeera obtained of Israeli forces murdering a Palestinian man carrying a sack of flour on his back"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"belaboring the obvious but it feels historically significant that an entire generation has been witnessing the worst human acts imaginable broadcast every single day for two years while governments and institutions make it illegal to talk about them — unbelievably crazy-making"
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear GOP Effort to Further Gut Campaign Finance Law
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"What do we talk about when we talk about “globalize the intifada?”
"Since when it is radical to ask that you care about your fellow human beings in their full humanity? That's what it means to fundamentally have a politics of any kind. It's also part of what writers and critics innately do in writing. This is not a big ask"
"Put another way: Project 2025 let right-wing legal groups sketch out the agenda for a new GOP DOJ. Do you think "Project 2029" will hand the DOJ section to the ACLU? No. The opposite. It's about getting a Dem message disconnected from left-wing groups"
➥	Project 2029, Democrats ARE just like the Democrats in The Onion stories
"How should people be allowed to oppose genocide? Let’s ask the people doing it"
My visitation will be scheduled at the appropriate time later (there are so many to eliminate), another advantage of being nobody
"BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S.
"We knew this day could come but here we are. The 2026 proposed @NOAA budget shutters all world-class federally funded meteorological, oceanographic, and climate labs in America. Included is @HRD_AOML_NOAA , a fixture for over 50 years in Miami. Hundreds of top scientists tossed"
"A Lesson From Martin Luther King, Jr. About "Globalizing the Intifada"
"Next time we should steer more directly into the iceberg"
FART!	This fart farting for fame and fortune sniffs and adores his own farts
"We Apologise for This Temporary Breakdown in our Breakdown"
Art of the Gaslight				Make fun of them
The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani From Becoming New York’s Mayor
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"It's utterly obscene for anyone in the US to pretend they're not living in the largest and most lethal criminal enterprise in history"
In the Court of the Ochre King
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice, into a trap, and murdered them for sport.”
"Analysts make a mistake when they describe the Supreme Court's speed and docket as set in stone. The modern SCOTUS can move basically as fast or as slow as it wants. If it wanted to block any of Trump's unconstitutional moves very quickly, it could. Not doing so is a choice"
"I also underline that this farcical bullshit is a direct consequence of the War On Terror, when political elites bullshat themselves into claiming support for America’s imperial devastation of huge tracts of the planet was brave and principled, and that opposing it was some frightful fanaticism"
Get your Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp gear here!
➥	Concentration camp porn is a terrific way to keep racist crackers distracted while they die because they lost their medicare and only hospital within a hundred miles of Bumfuck closed, and crackers will really jerk off while dying when Trump starts sending the yous and me of the world
Sheeyit, I would go to this in a nanosecond if the nearest show to DC wasn't Louisville KY
"The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he’s building a 19th pool. Maybe he’s buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he’s taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem. Maybe he’s throwing a Great Gatsby–themed cocktail hour as part of his wedding extravaganza! Maybe he’s replacing his blood with transfusions from his “blood boys.” Maybe he has bought hundreds of eggs and is pelting the house of a mere hundred-millionaire with them. Maybe he has bought some $TRUMP coin and is attending a special bash! There’s never a dull moment for the lucky beneficiaries of this wonderful bill!
"This must be the most vile, racist, truly Nazi statement from a European leader in decades"
"Shimon Atiya is a settler from an illegal outpost near Hebron, but last night he decided to settle in the yard of a Palestinian family in the village Umm al-Khair. Listen to the terrified toddlers sobbing & see the criminal's happy smug face"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"It’s insane that a revolving door of Democrats are going on television to denounce Mamdani while Republicans shepherd through the most destructive piece of legislation in recent memory"
There is a chance, small but bigger than ever before, this the last grid, last post
"In the past 24 hours, Trump’s threatened Elon Musk, Thomas Massie, Japan, a judge in Israel, the CEO of AT&T, Jerome Powell, Canada, Thom Tillis, a Forbes reporter, Harvard, & migrants with being eaten by Burmese pythons in the Everglades, while releasing a new line of colognes"
"Sure would be nice if the leaders of the Democratic Party could be doing a full court press against the worst piece of legislation in US history, rather than refusing any public interviews cause they can't figure out how to appease their AIPAC backers without being super racist"
Entrepreneurism: The Catalyst for Declining Political Engagement
"as ABC's This Week, NBC's Meet the Press and CNN's State of the Union all demagogue and smear Mamdani today over a phrase he never said remember that in 631 days of genocide in Gaza none of these shows have ever once platformed a single Palestinian or Palestinian-American"
A guide to fielding even the most ridiculous anti-Palestinian smears
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
I HATE MOTHERFUCKING DEMOCRATS
"human suffering and excruciatingly painful death is just another form of entertainment to joke about for these sadists"
"It's a blood libel to hit *play* on our genocidal tiktoks"
"Bold. Now do the Israeli genocide of Gazans, asshat, that you have helped fund"
"Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
➥	Reminder: these links in the chronological order I found them, I wrote about you and me in the concentration camps before I saw the above link
➥	"this is it, folks. this is the showdown. nothing can be off the table in this fight, they're not gonna follow rules. we either stop this from happening or just watch our communities get murdered and wait to get fed into the labor and death camp"
➥	Some of us have been screaming about motherfucking shitlords and their crackerchrister motherfuckers and their motherfucking professional Democratic accomplices for motherfucking decades, and snide motherfuckers called us crazy
"They're not just killing, they're taking joy in killing. Butchering journalists, aid workers, doctors, artists, poets. Sniping children in the head. Burning hospital patients alive. Shelling families begging for scraps of food. And still, they have the audacity to play victim"
"very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did"
Israeli terrorists MOCK a CHILD that just lost his MOTHER!
Mamdani's statement on Trump's threat to arrest and deport him, Mamdani is not going to save us but I'm sure as fuck gonna give him a chance cause who the fuck else
"Thomas Kincade, the great American who stole from his employees and peed on Winnie the Pooh. The perfect patriot for our times"
"Opinion | Yes, I voted for Trump’s megabill despite knowing it will harm my constituents. But if I hadn’t, I’d be primaried by someone who’d vote just like me but not give anti-Trump comments on background to The Times"
"I know this is hard to accept, but when a liberal says "there is no alternative to markets" and a socialist says "actually here's a proof-of-concept state-run solution" that is not "hate" that is just basic and conventional disagreement"
"Read whatever you want to… and read it proudly! In the idiocracy that is America (or Albion for that matter), to read is to belong to an increasingly endangered species, one I have great affection for. (PS I love INFINITE JEST)"
"Living under a regime of pure evil, whose main goal every hour of every day is to ensure as many human beings as possible suffer horribly, really really sucks
Blog about recent (non)reading
There will be no real presidential election in 2028
"Zohran Mamdani Eats ‘Like An Animal’ Says Woman Who Ate Dog Food On Air"
"So Trump gets $16 mil while Paramount admits mo wrongdoing and they release interview transcripts which they already did anyway. So it’s a bribe. It’s literally just a bribe"
UN Expert Accuses Major Corporations of Profiting Off of Israel's Assault on Gaza
Quiet, West Bank Pogrom in Progress
Americans Have Never Been Less Proud to Be American, New Poll Finds
"I used to think of vice signaling as a minor point about political communication. now I wonder if we need to develop it as a core aspect of political theory, at least as far as the Americas are concerned"
The Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny
"If only there were a clinically proven, totally safe way to prevent diseases like measles…"
"Alligator Alcatraz was built in 8 days. It took just over a week to create a massive concentration camp. Remember this the next time those in power claim they can't house the homeless, feed the starving or provide medical care to the poor. They can, they don't want to"
"Hitler: The trains start tomorrow. Chuck Schumer: We have renamed the trains to "evil choo choos"
Browsing at the Gitmo gift shop
➥	That's as shitty a place to stop as any
Bought this yesterday at Bandcamp, holyfuck, my drone/ambient genes are more rampant the clusterfuckier everything gets							⮯

POPULATION CONTROL IN GILLETTE

Tom Clark

The coal trains go through all night long
with a racket like all of hell being unleashed as noise.
At first, as you lie in bed in your motel room or mobile home
it merely disrupts your sleep, your nervous system. Later you kill
     your dog and wife

Rhyme *Angst* with *Spanks*?

Beets, I said to my Hillaryite Friend. Pickled beets, Hungarian gagh. By itself, in salads, lordy on pizza, put in on about halfway though bake-time. Make sure you drink the brine. HF said, drink the brine. Yes! I said, especially with at least ten baked asparagus spears. Why, HF asked. No reason, I said, it's good. HF had brought me some Stayman apples last week, I bought these beets at farmers market, here, thanks for the apples. I eat beets breakfast lunch dinner and in-between meals, my piss is always red. I love them this much of course you'll love them too - like the music I listen to, the poetry I thrust them at you. HF tried a forkful. It didn't change her life but HF ate and liked.








ZEUS PAUSES AMID WRITING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Anne Carson

How everyone thinks him a happy-go-lucky guy.
True and not true, don't give the ending away.
Rhyme angst with spanks?
Bit of a buzz on the old loins yet.

• Last gasp of the American Dream.
• What if it's not Putin but Thiel who's five-fingering the Trump puppet, Prof X said to me earlier, I said to HF. HF said, my partner talks about whack billionaires out of science fiction novels who will drink every last drop of blood from every organism in the universe to achieve immortality. HF ate more beets. I said, at no point have I ever thought that whack billionaires won't be the death of me.
• Some fun facts for a dystopic future.
• HF said, I have not seen one opinion piece on what happens to Democratic Party if HRC loses. I said, there has not been a Plan B since 1992. And now that Democrats have their Comey Dolchstoßlegende, there still won't be.
• Barrel bomb.
• How we became irrational.
• But - -  anyone an opinion on Prof X's thesis?
• How low can political journalism go?
• Letter from Louisiana.
• Swimming with the robotic fish.
• Repeat: How America is Run.
• Repeat: 2016 - Liberal Odyssey.
• Time bandits.
• The Takoma Park radio station sent an email yesterday: Hello and happy November. This Friday 4-6:30 pm, we're hosting an Open Studio. There are five spots available, so sign up if you would like to learn to work the board, play some tunes, and get on the microphone. Come anytime within that time frame. First come, first served! RSVP here (no emails, please): a link. Email arrived in inbox at 2:58 PM, I didn't see it until 3:45, I clicked the link and

ZEUS DECIDES TO DO HIS OWN TAXES THIS YEAR

Anne Carson

Deduct the corpse of Helen from the corpse of war (net).
"Victory" (adjusted gross). "Virtue" (attach schedule E).
Under penalty of perjury I declare that I have examined this cigar
and to the best of my knowledge and belief according to accompanying
       statements and schedules
it is not a cigar.

Make It From a Catsup Bottle, a Flashlight Coil, a Penny, the Cat's Bell

A friend tweeted out news I missed from this past August re: previously unreleased Coil now available:

So, after a criminally long time, we have “Backwards”, described as the missing link between 1990’s “Love’s Secret Domain” and the “Musick to Play in the Dark”-series. Among the tracks which are to be released on CD and Vinyl on october 9th via Cold Spring Records are the original versions of “A Cold Cell” and “Fire of the Mind”. The span of relative inactivity, studio album wise, and soundtrack experimentation between 1990 and 1998 (a silence gloriously interrupted by ELpH and Black Light District releases) wasn’t empty – but the result of that time’s studio work didn’t see the light of this sorry little planet until now when Cold Spring Records dropped three excerpts off the upcoming release, coming in CD and double vinyl format, scheduled for 9th october, which can be heard on the label’s soundcloud page.

So, as promised last night on twuuter, a cascade, six in orange.

• Growing stupid together.
• The mothership and the fatherland.
• Trump: giving the people what they want.
• Who'll fall.
• The minute Trump apologizes for anything his candidacy is over.
• Batwings.
• The shadows in the cave.
• Fire of the green shadow.
• There must be something.
• Homage to sewage.
• Weird instincts.
• Paranoid inlay.
• On Anthony Hecht's Green: An Epistle. First, I'm not sure why there is recent burst of Hecht sightings in Lit Blegsylvania, but yay! and second, Green is the poem I always post for Hecht's birthday.

VENUS

D Nurkse

Death is coming

and you must build a starship

to take you to Venus.

Make it from a catsup bottle,

a flashlight coil,

a penny, the cat’s bell,

Mom’s charm bracelet.

They say that planet is torment,

whipped by circular wind,

choked in vitriol clouds.

But no. When you get there

it is a light in the sky

and I am with you.

If you find nothing else,

borrow the pleated wing

of a winter moth,

lighter than dust.

It Is Undone Business I Speak Of, This Morning, or: Born 103 Years Ago Today

MAXIMUS TO GLOUCESTER, LETTER 27 [WITHHELD]

Charles Olson

I come back to the geography of it,
the land falling off to the left
where my father shot his scabby golf
and the rest of us played baseball
into the summer darkness until no flies
could be seen and we came home
to our various piazzas where the women
buzzed

To the left the land fell to the city,
is of a tent spread to feed lobsters
to Rexall conventioneers, and my father,
a man for kicks, came out of the tent roaring
with a bread-knife in his teeth to take care of
a druggist they'd told him had made a pass at
my mother, she laughing, so sure, as round
as her face, Hines pink and apple,
under one of those frame hats women then


This, is no bare incoming
of abstract form, this

is no welter or the forms
of those events, this,

Greeks, is the stopping
of the battle

          It is the imposing
of all those antecedent predecessions, the precessions

of me, the generation of those facts
which are my words, it is coming

from all that I no longer am, yet am,
the slow westward motion of

more than I am


There is no strict personal order

for my inheritance.


               No Greek will be able

to discriminate by body.

                    An American

is a complex of occasions,

themselves a geometry

of spatial nature.


          I have this sense,

that I am one

with my skin


               Plus this - plus this:

that forever the geography

which leans in

on me I compel

backwards I compel Gloucester

to yield, to

change

          Polis

is this

I posted this and the two poems and photo last year on Olson's birthday:
  

It's been 25 years since I read The Maximus Poems. A friend has been badgering me to revisit Olson, especially since I've been posting Black Mountain occasionally this past year; the Library's beaten, pencil-marked and high-lighted copy has been on my desk since last week when I grabbed it from a pile of discharged books; I stumble upon his birthday today; I've got Amazon gift cards in my wallet: 2013 to be the year I reread The Maximus Poems, expect lots of poems here.

UPDATE! 2013 was also supposed to be the year of Proust, that didn't work out, but it WAS! the year of The Maximus Poems, not every day - on purpose, the first time since the last time until the next time that's worked - but in sequence, the first half of 2014 (at least) will be year I finish rereading The Maximus poems. As for lots here, my favorite ones are hard to find to copy and paste, ridiculously hard if not impossible to type, and I didn't think anyone would mind.

THE CONDITION OF THE LIGHT FROM THE SUN

on ground level
up on top of the world
the Bulgar and his sons
in the eye of ice
over the left shoulder
North North East
on a line extending
directly half way distance
between the left neck
and the ridge above
the road which passes over
the top of the world
constituted of color
divided among them
the Throne the Kingdom the Power

 

• The Bettie Serveert song is Theme Song Four because it makes me stupidly happy, I daydream I could someday be that happy, but when I change bloglook like I compulsively need to every time since the last until the next it's the Theme Song I don't think is ceremoniously necessary on the first day, the only one necessary on the second.
• The Surface.
• Today's Maqroll precept:

A knife in the body of a sleeping man. The bare lips of a wound that does not bleed. Vertigo, the death rattle, the final stillness. Like certain truths that life fires at us - insoluble, unerring, erratic, indifferent life.

• Mirror and self: on narcissism.
• Modernity, enchantment, fictionalism.
• Top 100 Tweeting Bloggers! I've only 371,883 fewer followers than number one.
• Professional Suicide, part 1.
• Vote Goat in 2014!
• Ten history books you need read?
• RIP Paul Blair.
• 2014 is going to be the year I really read Emily Dickinson for the first time.
• Emily Dickinson writes a letter. 
• Alright, have this Olson poem below the song.
• Fell asleep listening to Coil, woke up with Coil in my head. I realize Coil doesn't really fit with Charles Olson poems (though I could be wrong). I am not allowed to listen to Coil on trips to and from Ohio to visit Planet. More in weeks ahead.

MAXIMUS, TO HIMSELF

Charles Olson

I have had to learn the simplest things

last. Which made for difficulties.

Even at sea I was slow, to get the hand out, or to cross   

a wet deck.

               The sea was not, finally, my trade.

But even my trade, at it, I stood estranged

from that which was most familiar. Was delayed,

and not content with the man’s argument

that such postponement   

is now the nature of

obedience,

               that we are all late

               in a slow time,

               that we grow up many

               And the single   

               is not easily

               known

It could be, though the sharpness (the achiote)   

I note in others,

makes more sense

than my own distances. The agilities

               they show daily

               who do the world’s   

               businesses

               And who do nature’s   

               as I have no sense   

               I have done either

I have made dialogues,

have discussed ancient texts,

have thrown what light I could, offered   

what pleasures

doceat allows

               

               But the known?

This, I have had to be given,

a life, love, and from one man   

the world.

               Tokens.

               But sitting here

               I look out as a wind   

               and water man, testing   

               And missing

               some proof

I know the quarters

of the weather, where it comes from,   

where it goes. But the stem of me,   

this I took from their welcome,

or their rejection, of me

               And my arrogance

               was neither diminished   

               nor increased,

               by the communication

2

It is undone business

I speak of, this morning,   

with the sea

stretching out

from my feet