tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67141715827902389912024-02-02T02:39:21.014-08:00Sputnikliterary outpourings of lee foustLee Fousthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02998028247715706736noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714171582790238991.post-17142009194968172642022-10-15T06:25:00.001-07:002022-10-15T06:25:53.117-07:00San Salvi book trailer<p></p><p></p><p></p><p><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/uKxqC_kc6P4" width="480"></iframe></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the book trailer for my new project, <i>San Salvi</i>,
a short illustrated novel. The book contains two versions of the novel, the monologue of a catatonic patient detained in Florence, Italy's, San Salvi mental hospital, one in
English and the other in Italian, translated by the author in
collaboration with Venetian poet Verusca Costenaro. It also includes
illustrations by Russian artist Tatiana Stadnichenko. The audio here is
the novel's opening paragraph taken from the audiobook, which includes
soundscapes by US musician Robert English, and which will be available
to download from Bandcamp.com on Halloween 2022.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can order the
physical book directly through Blurb.com, or from me: paypal or zelle
12.50 (either dollars or Euros) to leefoust@gmail.com and I will mail
you a copy either in the USA or continental Europe.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>Lee Fousthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02998028247715706736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714171582790238991.post-17490845583047612482022-04-17T01:47:00.001-07:002022-04-17T01:47:25.331-07:00Odes And Toads: 14 Pindaric Baseball Acrostics<p>
</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 24.0pt;">Odes And Toads: </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 24.0pt;">14 Pindaric Baseball Acrostics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Anarchistic,
mustachioed, white-shod, swingin’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Team of my boyhood,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Hella representin’
our</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Lighthearted
Oaktown of summertime sun—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Erupting in cheer
at Hatteberg’s shot:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Twenty fucking
victories</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">In a row, doing
what no baseball</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Club has ever done
before or</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Since—hiring a
genius, that is.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">All our nightmares
come true.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">‘Nother real estate
owner</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Giving away
millions to aging sluggers with</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Elongated careers
and neckless wonders.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Los Angeles, you
wish, Anaheim.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Scioscia, too, is
such an ass.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Rawhide team of too
many colors, it’s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Always a slugfest
in Arlington</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Never a pitchers’
duel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Game after game in
gale-force winds</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Eminent sluggers
try to salvage</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Rookie pitchers.
They always</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Swoon in August.
It’s just too hot in that endless</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">parking
lot they call a stadium.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">God, what an awful
excuse for a team:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">International
League rejects</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">And Silicon Valley tech
bro fanboys—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Nonetheless losers
of more World Series’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Than any other club
ever, outclassed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Suburban shills; it
used to take a Candlestick in the fog to find ‘em.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Dodging streetcars
in LA?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Oh, dem bums is
always blue</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Down by the old
slaughterhouse.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Goin’ west, where
the SoCal sky</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Enhances their unis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Regionalism
betrayed, but it’s</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Still hard to sing ill
of Jackie’s courageous club.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>(‘cept maybe for la Sorda—I hear
he’s a jerk.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Best name in
baseball, it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Reminds us of our
German heritage and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Eschews Wisconsin’s
milk or cheese for a can;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Where Barney slides
into a giant mug of it</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Every time the home
team homers, his</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Rear-end surely
sore when Hammerin’ Hank</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Stepped to the
plate there, those last two years.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Tin stadia were the
best</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">I think, despite
(or because of) the noise they made.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Gothic script, too,
for yr logo</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Engenders Baseball
with tradition.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Regardless of
agency,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Sometimes better
things are best left alone.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Red, the commie
color</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Embraced by a
machine of short-haired</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Decent young men
(‘cept for one bad flower) and Nazi-loving Marge</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Schott—shame on
her.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Cuddly</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Underachieving</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Becursed</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Southside scourge.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Riled up over
nuttin’</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Every goddamned
year</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">“Death to the
Yankees!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">So goes the cheer,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Over-obsessed Sox
fans:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Xanax and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mucho</i> Milwaukee beer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Yeah, we had to
hear way too much</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">About old Derek “the
klutz” Jeter;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Nothing else seemed
to matter for many a year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Kinda got my goat,
the worst fielding shortstop</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Ever paraded around
like</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Elizabeth Taylor in
the tabloids.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Statistics don’t
lie, Joe Morgan.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Meet Mookie’s Mets</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">(Enclitic for
Metropolitans),</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">The other guys in
New York,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Suturing the wound
of West Coast abandonment.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Now some say
baseball</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Actually reflects
American history—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">This may well be
true.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">I noticed that when
the Expos</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Outlived their
Canadian welcome, the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Nat’s eschewed to
become “Senators” (thrice removed)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">And found a
suitable national replacement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Let’s hear it for
our millennial Washingtonians; seems they know</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">“Senator” ’s since
become an even dirtier word than...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>9/2015</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Florence</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">P.S.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Cheer for Chad,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Handiman of the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Athletics, his name
so</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Damn close to the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Poet who, all those
many centuries ago,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Inscribed verses
for athletes both</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">National and
Barbarian, in</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Demotic verse,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Eternally inspiring</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Readers and
poetasters alike to misread his e for an A.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">4/17/2022</span></p><p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Lee Fousthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02998028247715706736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714171582790238991.post-74248725441000747732021-03-25T10:31:00.000-07:002021-03-25T10:31:11.699-07:00FAKE NOVEL excerpt (Chapter 13: Best in Show)<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Chapter Thirteen: Best in Show</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black"; font-size: 16.0pt;">(In which a bunch of bribed politicians shoot up a high
school in Florida)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 1; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black"; font-size: 16.0pt;">AKA Seventeen Corpses </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black"; font-size: 16.0pt;">(A Western remake starring Ronnie Raygun and Jane
Russell’s tits in a tight sweater)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">The Drumpfster, a soft
and soggy insufficiently bullied draft-dodging teenager, hides out in the
bowels of his Mafioso father’s golden tower. He contemplates revenge on his high
school for the insult of algebra. (That and the fact that almost every other
student in the school is smarter and poorer than he is.) He combs his hair over
his bald spot until he sees a troubled teen in the mirror. He regrows his acne
and his ears stick out like the ferret-man who runs the Department of Justice. (Klansman
Sessions is one of Dr. Moreau’s less successful creations—he still bites, but prefers
dark meat.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Better yet: the teenage Drumpfster
hides the effects of radiation on his thinning hair with a red MAGA (My Attorney
Got Arrested) cap and contemplates just how to make Trumpistan great again. He
decides that teenage Jews are the biggest threat to his dictatorship and the Trumpistani
way of life. Going to a high school and gunning down as many Jews as possible
will be a good start to white Christian greatness—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and</i> the Rapture. He will march to South Florida and shoot his way
to freedom from algebra, alcohol, almanacs, alfalfa, Ali Baba, Al Capone, and
all of the other Semitic plots undermining the greatest white trash redneck
shithole country on Earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He spends a few hours practicing a
Nazi salute in the mirror before putting on his makeup, getting into the
hairspray, and heading out to do God’s work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Donald Duck Drumpf received
$30.3 million directly from the National Rifle Association in campaign
contributions—perhaps much, much more through PACS and Super PACS—much of this
money reportedly coming from Russian oligarchs and merely laundered through the
NRA.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Good
dog! Stay—no, stay-y-y-y. OK, stand on your hind legs and beg.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Paul Ryan sits in
his parents’ home polishing his saber, oiling his rod, jerking off to NAMBLA
porn—gazing at his own white face in the mirror with a great deal of affection.
He prays for the strength to carry out the orders of his superiors. He will be
Superman (a real/fake man, that is to say, a brainless killer), Batman
(avenging his white parents against the ethnic scum who murdered them), Thor (a
real/fake purebred Aryan), Captain America (that unique combination of
exploitable loyalty and rabid racism in a leotard), Wonder Woman (a token dose
of sensitivity in her big-chested, motherly violence), Black Panther (a politically
correct token), Silver Surfer (he’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i>
a nerd, he’s cool!) and even Deadpool (Reaganite irony destroying empathy through
smug cynicism).<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Paul Ryan—his Eddie Munster’s
puppy-dog face erased in this palimpsest of superhero lore—loads his AR-57.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Paul Ryan has
received $49,650 directly from the NRA in campaign contributions over the last
twenty years, probably much more through hidden channels.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Here’s
a treat. Beg—now beg-g-g-g.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Marco Rubio climbs
into his mom’s SUV to give his gun a lift to school. Along the way talk radio
(Rush Limbaugh) tells him that illegal Mexicans are killing innocent blond Trumpistani
girls on piers in evil queer sanctuary city San Francisco; that all liberals
are sneaky idiot/geniuses who hate his freedom and want to take away his
penis/gun/right to be an asshole racist; that evil Jews in suits in banks are
helping us Christians arrive at our much-desired Armageddon but that we should
hate their shifty lawyer ways anyway; that feminists are all hairy-legged
lesbians aimed at cutting off his still flaccid penis, one painful slice at a
time; that feminism is a communist plot against his ever getting hard or having
the pleasure of dominating some bitch and turning her from a whore into a
mother with his theoretically hard cock; that the police only shoot blacks
because they resist God’s law (arrest); that the only thing utterly against divine
law is saying no to a white man; that Millennials are pampered snowflakes in
need of a good war to toughen them up; that filthy Muslim commie Taliban
goat-fuckers resist bowing down to our warlord flag in Afghanistan and Iraq; that
Iran can’t be trusted; that only a dumb black man with a Muslim name like
Barack Hussein Obama would trust those Middle Eastern scum—so we need to nuke
‘em behind their backs, the sneaky rag-head bastards; that Russia is our best
ally now that they’ve adopted our own mafia-style economic system (and are also
the only other sensible white nation left in the world<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>);
and that in the new New World Order we two white nations will rule over all of the
darkie shithole countries together.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">After
Rubio blows apart seventeen teenage bodies at the school, the radio
personalities quoted above will blame video games, bullying, and mental illness
for the deaths—anything but guns, white male anything, Drumpf’s incendiary
speeches, or their own fear-mongering.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Marco Rubio received
a paltry $5,000 directly from the NRA in contributions to his first campaign, but
an additional million when he ran for reelection—after proving that he was an obedient
pup. He’s such a kiss-ass he would have done everything they wanted him to do
for much less.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Who’s
a good boy? You are! You’re a goo-oo-oo-d boy!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Rob Portman pulls
into the parking lot of the </span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, stoned out of his mind on
talk radio, red baseball caps, Drumpf rallies, and comic book heroes. Trumpistan
teaches young white men mostly only one thing: violence will solve all of your
problems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today
</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Robbie Portman</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">’s going hunting. The more Jew kids he
shoots in the next half hour, the greater Trumpistan will be in the morning.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Little Robbie carries his erect
assault rifle through the glass doors and into the school. His actual, fleshy
penis is a shriveled and useless lump in the pants he’s about to wet in
excitement and fear. (Yeah, this is all about hating mommy—his teachers and Hillary
Clinton. Guns are the anti-mommy erect steel cocks to which envious male white
babies cling; they signify the coward’s dream of uniting sex and supremacy through
bloodletting.) Little Robbie’ll show ‘em what it means for a boy to become a
man: it means killing bad guys. Ronnie Raygun killed bad guys in Hollywood
movies. Well, actually it was John Wayne—but, by 1980, Wayne was no longer
available to be cast as president of the New World Order. Trumpistan settled
for the B-movie version. Trumpistan always prefers remakes to originals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Ronald Reagan is my avatar of white
masculinity and though I walk through the valley of the liberal media and gun-hating
hippies I shall not want for bullets to smite the fuck out of anybody who gets
in my way, Jack,” Portman mumbles before opening fire.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Robert Portman
received $29,455 from the NRA for his first campaign and an additional $731,400
toward reelection.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Pee
on the paper: down, boy! Do-o-o-own! Now pee on the paper while we all watch.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Inside the school,
gun raised and cocked, Ted Cruz lets the bullets fly in sweet relief, thrill-pee
pulsing down his thighs. There’s almost no kickback from the compliant gun
(just like a real/fake Christian woman). The flesh, brains, blood, and bone
spurs of children fly about the classrooms like confetti at a birthday party.
Amid the hysterical screaming of those not yet dead, children run in circles around
traumas that will brand them, their DNA, and their descendants for eternity. It’s
nothing personal, just our way of life in action, business as usual in
Washington, DC. It’s the price you pay for believing in democracy, for trusting
the rich, for the indifference you have to force yourself to feel to support
all of the Human Centipede administration’s attacks on human rights—from Aleppo
to Tuskegee, from Saigon to the homeless encampments of Los Angeles. (Behind
every great fortune, a greater crime.) You’ll never take away little Teddie’s
freedom to spurt bullets, to smirk at you from your TV screen, to feel infinitely
superior to the sheeple, to laugh at you and your liberal bullshit. Nobody
tells little Teddie what to do with his pee-pee gun.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Superman’s Kryptonite cum rips
through these kids’ clothes and skin with hands of steel. Children’s bodies
tear like paper in his superhero grasp, heads bouncing around the gym like
deflated footballs. Gore rains on the wounded and terrified faces on the linoleum,
as their parents and teachers, as Trumpistan, its military and its police, have
taught them to do. This is the position of the patriot, face down on the floor,
ass up for whatever an authority figure wants to shove in it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Trump/Reagan/B-movie cowboy/superhero/NRA-bought
Senator boy then stomps on the shivering, writhing, and still bodies—the still
living playing dead, fighting back their screams—the corpses rapidly cooling to
room temperature. He stomps ‘em good with his leather boots and cowboy spurs,
grinding their bones to chalk against the orange linoleum. (Even this is
useless as chalk has long been replaced by disposable markers in Trumpistan’s
“schools”—they pollute better, cost less, and make industrialists richer faster
than chalk ever did.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Ted Cruz received
$11,900 from the NRA during his first campaign, plus another $65,000 for his
2012 Senate bid.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Speak!
Now Speak! Tell the people about the price of freedom, then go sit in your
basket until I call you again.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">When feeding time is
over, Wayne LaPierre locks the gate and walks away from the kennel as the
barking subsides to the reluctant silence of a neglected kennel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Black";">*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>*</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Good guys always
kill more people than bad guys—that’s how they get to be called “good guys.”
They win the war by killing more people than the bad guys. Then, once they’ve
won the war, their historians write that they were the good guys, that they
were on the right side, the winning side, the side that killed the most people,
took power, and kept it—at least until the time when those history books got
written.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a>
It’s obvious that the author of this fake novel holds superhero mythology in
disdain and has never read any of these comics—therefore this passage is more
religious than aesthetic, insomuch as it represents the kind of pure prejudice
most of this novel attacks. You don’t like it? It’s contradictory? Fuck off and
read a Dan Brown novel.</p>
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<div id="ftn2" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
Read: not socialist.</p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"> </p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"> </p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"> </p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"> </p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"> </p><p class="MsoFootnoteText"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8qm9WonAMDPrPLU_HS7aRXjdKYHoQ7kwgp5wUQznbRQ0Jf4m6ILkL27sDds0pz8w5eH_7bTZsORY0ILl0_SoOgVlYHi9SKk7Erlx87AnQmUnJyTGCtWBumJ9pBlzOui_sqhPaOJbL-ma/s2048/Cover+front+final+copy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1370" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8qm9WonAMDPrPLU_HS7aRXjdKYHoQ7kwgp5wUQznbRQ0Jf4m6ILkL27sDds0pz8w5eH_7bTZsORY0ILl0_SoOgVlYHi9SKk7Erlx87AnQmUnJyTGCtWBumJ9pBlzOui_sqhPaOJbL-ma/s320/Cover+front+final+copy.png" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Lee Fousthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02998028247715706736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714171582790238991.post-15038114207912731012021-03-03T10:19:00.002-08:002021-03-03T10:19:47.964-08:00Waitin’ for the Vaccine Blues<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">As if in auto-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Citation, San Francisco</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Calls up some wind</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">And a little fog</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Today.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>My mind</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Wanders in empty
fields</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Of Covid time, end-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Less and finite</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">As a lost dog.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I walk</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Where the traffic
lights</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Bid me and Alamo
Square</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Is where I sit</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">And where San Francisco
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Writes itself </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Into my note-</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Book.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Half a million</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">American souls</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Know it’s true.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>2/2/2021</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Alamo
Square, SF</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFydansxJ68m7JT4djurYf-M6IOs-hOUgtXrTGD6gR0jVqCSO4aIilt9iERx3v_njFYmN1uv7kq9-ghyphenhyphenutDfPjV_m0GPTh8GIf-mWBbJfkpmhHZWdpdJiw9Fc5EUvucGNQk9dTvy4oLTvH/s275/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFydansxJ68m7JT4djurYf-M6IOs-hOUgtXrTGD6gR0jVqCSO4aIilt9iERx3v_njFYmN1uv7kq9-ghyphenhyphenutDfPjV_m0GPTh8GIf-mWBbJfkpmhHZWdpdJiw9Fc5EUvucGNQk9dTvy4oLTvH/s0/images.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><br /></span><p></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">The last bitter
coffee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">in Naples, the last
sip</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">of this life I live</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">vicariously, a
traveller’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">life, denizen of
cities</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">lived like dreams</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">,one at a time,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">everything in the
moment,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">but soon forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">And, like a miracle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">of San Gennaro
himself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">this is the best
coffee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">of them all, and a
fitting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">postscript to the
sweetest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">dream I have dreamt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">O, how good it
tastes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">How strong and jittery
it makes me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">For the train ride
to come,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">for tomorrow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">and tomorrow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">and all the tomorrows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">7/24/2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Naples</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">"The Last Romantics." Seen in Forcella, Naples. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Nothing says fuck
you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">quite like a
castle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">it stands there</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">daring you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">to fuck with it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">to assail </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">its unassailable
heights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">,its unreachable
ramparts,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">but no matter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">how many <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">castellani</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">you manage to kill,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">the castle remains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">And when it’s
yours,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">your own conquered</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">fuck you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">rising from the
earth or the sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">as far into the sky</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">as any human
construction,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">you’re trapped in
it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">until the next
barbarian</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">comes along</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">,takes it from you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">and locks himself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">in its dank</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">dungeons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">7/21/2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Naples</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Castel Sant'Elmo in Naples. Angevin, built around 1275.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Partenope,
predatory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">as any earthly
creature</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">,who all must eat,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">omnivorous and
unable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">to fish—her bird
wings got in the way</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">of the wire—created
the art</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">of singing. To
snare a man. Any man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Not for loving—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">she sang of other
matters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">of poverty perhaps,
or camaraderie,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">or the moonlight on
the turbulent sea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">—anything but
romance, anything but love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">For she and her two
sisters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">had grown tired of
poking their beaks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">into the dirt, of
grubbing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">for scraps, and the
island</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">was too rocky to
plant. Anthropologists</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">confirm civilization
impossible</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">under such
circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Not even Circe’s</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">Resources—a hut, a
stall,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">or the power of
magic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">to protect them,
the sirens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">did all that they
could do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is chapter Nine of the <i>Fake Novel</i>, performed by yours, truly and talented musician Robert English (50% of the band Nominal State) with some neat visuals. The novel was published on May 1st, 2020, International Worker's Day, just before all hell broke loose. It's a savage literary punk rock anarchist satire of all things Trump as well as politics and capitalism in general. The narrative pretty successfully combines the humor and horror genres. It uses the F-word a lot (4 times in the book trailer alone!) And yet it yearns for a peaceful revolution and a saner future for this world of bullies and pretend victims on TV.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wake up, sheeple. Fake is the new real. The false must be told.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can order the novel from your local bookshop or directly from the author (paypal $15 or 15 Euro to leefoust@gmail.com for US, Canada, Europe and UK including postage), or online bookstores--but please avoid Amazon and other predatory capitalists.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">I, the reluctant novelist, compose this fake novel from a
place of suffering. Every word hurts. It’s unfair of Trumpistan to make me
think like this and, worse still, to have to write like this. In your privilege
as a reader you’ve put me to work as the conscience of a nation—a nation I’ve
abandoned on at least three separate occasions. I don’t feel like I can go on
with this much longer—yet what choice do I have? The falsity must be told.
Someone has to call us all to account for our complicity in the Human Centipede
Administration—and I appear to be the last novelist standing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>Fuck you for that, for taking away
my artistic freedom and respect for literature.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>I’m done with myself. Literature
swallowed me whole a long time ago. My voice is hoarse. I appropriate the
shrill whine of the political pundits I detest and speak from the house of pain
where Dr. Moreau created me and all of the other manimals. Even the Sayer of
the Law has abandoned us this time, replaced by a big-eared dwarf who,
emulating Pontius Pilate, washes the dirty paws that shook Drumpf’s tiny hand
in a devil’s bargain to keep US law as racist as possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>All that these Centipede segments
seem to want to do is to get back at the cool kids who laughed at them in high
school, the ones who smoked pot and had sex. These are the two big hangups
these stunted momma’s boys never seem to grow out of. Of course they blame it
all on Jesus. (Really they hate the Savior ‘cause He watched them jerk off with
His omniscient eyes. So it’s really only guilt that keeps them kissing his ass
in public, just like Drumpf kisses Putin’s ass, then they deny his every
commandment with their politics like Peter before the crucifixion.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Otherwise, what? Mathias (of my writers group) says I only
want to annoy people, or to get a rise out of them, by writing this bullshit.
It’s possible. He also says I’m sometimes funny. He’s still caught up in the
intentional fallacy: he believes I’m in control of what I write (“Just like
soldiers believe they’re in control of a war,” sing that elecro-pop group I
mentioned earlier). But you can’t make this shit up—it’s happening in real/fake
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>Yet
Mathias would claim that I still have free will and could choose to write
anything I want, anything other than this political bull honkey.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>Free will,
as a concept, is the basis of judgment and most monotheistic religions.
Monotheists claim that it is God’s right (His duty!) to punish or reward our
souls after death for lifetimes spent on Earth inside bodies doing stuff. But
moralism’s kettle of worms is spilling out all over the kitchen table. The
weight of judgment crushes us when our laws are skewed against the poor and
only enforced upon those who can’t afford a lawyer. We store this oppression in
our hearts and pass it on to our descendants. Judgment falls on me for writing
this crap just as, in my nostalgia for morality, I heap a multitude of sins on
the Drumpfster and all the real/fake public figures I appropriate here in
imitation of Dante’s judgmental fake novel, <i><span style="font-family: MinionPro-It; mso-bidi-font-family: MinionPro-It;">The Self-Righteous Comedy</span></i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>Responsibility is always outside us,
a wall upon which we lean. Responsibility can no longer be “taken.” It’s become
a thing static and moot, crushed beneath the spectacle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;">My writerly desire to prick your conscience, to add to the
chorus of literature, preach to the choir, and engage other languages in
self-defense of their assaults on fact and logic, remains inexplicable.
(Unless, like Flip Wilson’s Geraldine character, the devil is making me do it.)
For surely I’m not as bad as my nation’s leaders proclaim me to be in all of my
elitist/liberal/taker glory. They’ve ruined my reputation as an American—by
association with hillbillies—all over this continent. Europe is so stunned by
Trumpistan it can’t make up its mind whether to laugh or cry.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>Such is the work of the novel: to
try on other voices and languages like shoes. Or perhaps to sift through
rhetorical styles, making room for the voices of conformity and protest until
the novel makes some sense of the chaos of individuality that has emerged from
our treasured plurality, “We, the people.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span> </span>Society against the state, words
against language; throwing shit against a wall until something sticks. Maybe
the only value we ever find in living comes from the shortcomings of language
to save us—the conscience behind the text’s composition, the form of a novel
that speaks in-between the collected monologues I here repeat, assassinate,
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afternoon light is lonely, long-shadowed, the already behind-the-high-rises sun
slapping golden highlights on the treetops and falling in desolate splotches on
the sparkly sidewalks. The temperature is optimal, still warm from the
late-August day but cooled by an ocean breeze. The traffic around the lake is
steady but quiet—perhaps compared to the impulsive, always dangerous, and noisy
Italian traffic with which I’m more familiar these days. The park where I stop
is shadowy and cool, the grass I sit on lush, the pine, redwood, and oak trees
old and knowing. Each one of them is so familiar to me and my upbringing that I
could name them and no one would contradict me.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Kaiser
high-rise looms above the lake and park where I sit; both my aunt and sister worked
there when I was a child and they loved me—thus I feel a friendly affinity with
the high-rise’s early sixties corporate cleanliness.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There’s a
building site nearby, abandoned for the day, and decay: ever present and
incremental. A staid mansion turned into an old folks’ home. Syringes in the
gutter. Victorian opulence. Sixties apartment-complex glitz and much glass with
many-balconied lake views. Past, present, and future stand side-by-side on
these streets, always in conversation.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Oakland is
my imaginary hometown because I usually say that I come from here—and do,
originally—despite the fact that I don’t really remember ever having lived
here. I came home from the hospital to my family’s tiny California bungalow on
Midvale Avenue, but we moved out into the suburbs before my brain was developed
enough to construct any very valid retrievable memories of the city. Only
images of that house and its tiny front yard remain—reinforced and intertwined with
old family snapshots.</div>
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Still, even growing up in the ‘burbs,
Oakland was central to my family, the town where my father also worked, the
city we came to on shopping expeditions, the central figure of my East-Bay
identity, and home to the baseball team to which I remain ever faithful. All I
know of Oakland therefore comes from family stories around the dinner table,
later visits, movies, and reading about it in books.</div>
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Images of this troubled city so often at war
with itself and its gentle climate has left an indelible mark on my psyche
although I do not and will probably never know its streets, buildings, back
alleys, homes and apartments as I know those of Walnut Creek, New York City,
Rome, Florence, or even Naples—that other city of my heart. Still, my pretend
familiarity with Oakland is precious to me. It’s like loving a film star, a ball
player, or a particularly self-destructive indi-rocker—you can love them from
afar, without having to put up with their everyday real-world bullshit. You
just love them because they let you love them—and they are so cool.</div>
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(With apologies and sympathy—and a little bit of jealousy—to
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Forests of slender
trees, spaced at polite distances one from the other, wave at our passing
automobile. “Since our forests are so well behaved, we Romanians feel free to
go a little mad sometimes,” Ela tells me. Forbidden visual impression: look but
don’t record. “No photos!” I’m admonished by a truck stop warden. Memory is an
objective lie. Even anonymous prefers to be seen but not photographically
recalled. Rosé is a poor compromise anyway you look at it. I’m not
surprised—after all, the radical always hides in plain sight.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The rules usually break me so I
blush to be thus censured.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My writing remains neutral in the
war on the passive voice—for we’re awfully fond of empathy, all Voivode aside.
There’s nothing quite like food in a paper sack as my own bones are woven of
plant fiber, fish flesh, and stringy cat gut from the bottom of a snare drum.
Culture is the camouflage I put on in order to circumvent the brutes.
Wallachia’s mirror: the Turks. All mustaches are created equal. But our poets
are bigger than your poets. Genocide’s only a part participle of national
pride—usually in the third person plural. Sad in the homeland is only a backward
way of saying nomad, (happyyes?); just another asshole, just another hominid in
a dormitory of non-denominational dreaming. (He moved to Zurich—where else?)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La
dracu </i>Tzara and his Dada, saying yes to everything twice. Bucharest should
be the capital of Europe, so big and tactile are its endless cement precipices.
Everything west of Wallachia has already been killed with kindness anyway.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“If Vlad Tepes heard you say that he’d
tell you to go impale yourself,” says Ela with aplomb.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We climbed the Carpathians then,
past his citadel (the Dracula Campground at its feet, impaled dummies up the
steep slope for dramatic effect) to the glacier lake with its monkish tonsure
of hairy October snow. But even here we can’t escape the barbarians nursed at
our corporate teat all these years. I thank God for making Communists, so that there
will be someone around to miss capitalism when it’s finally killed all of its
practitioners. (I also thank God for making me an atheist—my mother only made
me a sweater.) I’ve watched ‘em, worshippers of Moloch, these many years, throwing
their lives at the feet of Telecom in supplication. He’s harsher than any
heart-rending Incan virgin-eating deity. For the cellphone has finally found a
way to coerce the bourgeoisie into choosing slavery over nothing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">This
is why capitalism always wins: unlike humorlessly ethical and logical
communism, it incorporates Dada into its barcode, never takes itself all that seriously
(not even during its many genocidal binges), and lets its followers believe in
advertising so that they can die desiring all the wars their little hands can
muster—so many of them are dying to be martyred for their school, their boss,
their country, and/or their god. (A word that can only be written between
air-quotes these days.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Art, it appears from the
glacier-lakeside at the top of the snow-dotted Carpathian Mountains on October
20<sup>th</sup>, 2017, has proven itself impervious to either promoting or
destroying capitalism. Although it’s a rather uneasy truce—and one that gives
art, like Switzerland, a bad name. It takes a real audience of slaves aware of
the fact that they are slaves to be moved by images of resistance. Humor always
escapes the belongers, parishioners, capitalists, and automobile ‘n’ cellphone
enthusiasts.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The bullfighter stands alone against
history (in a somewhat warmer country southwest of here), brutally murdering
his only friend again and again for reasons so buried in history, machismo, and
the desire for self-annihilation that he refuses to even consider them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The artist sits for the model who,
not being made of paint, gets bored and goes out for a smoke. Dada, on the
other hand, gets things done these days—since the rest of the world has fallen
into a period of argumentative languishing. The artist fails to sell anything by
selling out, puts his or her soul on sale, and ends up slinging hash—leaving a
pile of vile bodies outside in a heap.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I wonder how our boy Tzara crossed
the Carpathians back in his day on his way to Zurich and ridiculous history. In
a caravan? The covered wagon my family must have once taken from Ohio to Iowa.
To end up in Hayward, California in a Model A—being wayward becomes a way of
life once you take to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">latcho drom</i>.
Some places are better to be from than to end up in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“The road down the other side of the
mountains was built by prisoners,” Ela tells us. “It’s one of the most
beautiful and famous roads in the world. It’s paved with their blood.”
(Somewhere beyond its foot lies Dracula’s castle.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">The writer doesn’t
feel that she’s written her masterpiece yet. This is the best possible state of
affairs. She actually fears writing the best thing that she’ll ever write for
it might ruin her ability to push on into the search for the best writing she can
do. For her life has come to revolve around this search.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everything that’s ever happened to
her, both the good things and the bad, have helped. Every door that’s ever
closed, shutting her out of something that she loved, has opened new
possibilities of composition. Every good thing that’s ever happened to her has
also helped by sustaining hope in a hopeless world too tired to give a shit
about its own survival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Perhaps she will be one of those
writers who pounds away at a typewriter or keyboard for years and years,
writing works that never quite live up to her precocious talent and early
promise. Perhaps this failure will be her greatest triumph: she will have no
babies to kill, no early masterpiece to overcome when despair and
alcoholism engulf her later middle age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Maybe she’s already written the best
thing she’ll ever write but failed to notice. Distracted by the words,
she just goes on composing, slashing, hyphenating, and shuffling them into new
combinations. Probably being formed into a masterpiece isn’t in their best
interest either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">7/14/2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">San Francisco</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"> </span>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">The day the
fascists took Wash-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">ington, it was night</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">in Rome, where I
hid</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">in a rented house
in Tras-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">tevere, certain
rooms locked—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">because I could
never afford</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">it all. I ran into
Rosanna</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">,a good egg, and we
didn’t speak</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">of the end of the
world as the hope</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">,fighting against
all odds for eight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">complacent years,
took two steps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">back in five
minutes. For</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">“No man’s fuck is holy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">because man’s work
is most war.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Is good really so
relative</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">its works can be
blown away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">in an instant in
the winds of wrong?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I guess wrong knows</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">all the tricks—from
open carry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">to concealed weapon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>And right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">is the bells
ringing across Rome</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">this morning,
signaling the loss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">,again, of a good
man gone down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>1/20-21/2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Rome</span></div>
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Lee Fousthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02998028247715706736noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714171582790238991.post-32577724869312227662016-11-24T07:37:00.000-08:002016-11-24T07:42:00.733-08:00"The Scrovegni damnation"<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">The Scrovegni
damnation</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">suspended, the
chapel</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">I will not see this
morning;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">crisp, fall,
Padovan</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">foschia</span></i><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"> and revolution.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">A kneeling dog</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Before the museum.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Religion of the
elite</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">who keep churches</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">as churches</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">once kept relics.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">“Boys keep swingin’,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">boys always work it
out.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Kidnapped that girl</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">because her father</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">,a Vatican official,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">who, no doubt,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">don’t give a shit</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">about this Roman
amphitheater,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">but did something
nasty</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Despite</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">power we do things</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">and consequences</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">fall on women</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>we conceive</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">of as other, as
ours, as</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">a social commodity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">The Scrovegni
loaned</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>money</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">and we paid
interest</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">at the Vatican bank</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">in blood.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>10/1/2016</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Padova</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Once a month we host an Open Mic here in Florence at the Hostel Tasso. Last night I got Nadia Koski and Marcello from Sushi Rain to help me with out with an old love poem of a sort.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">Another cool, gray San Francisco day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">,July, toward the end of the world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">I’m the archivist of nothing in particular.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">July, 5<sup>th</sup>, 2016</span></span></div>
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new automatic fingers embody fear, load up, and get itchy. The bubble swells
inside the barrel to bursting. The automatic metallic mind in your hand makes
your prissy wet and your colic hard.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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cower. “Kill! Kill!” they bark, for they hate the people on the other side of
the fence. The fence is their bubble, their defenestrating defense, the wall
between their cowardice and false courage. “Kill! Kill!” they bark on the
internet. “We love Jesus!”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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afraid of Christmas. of not being believed in. of the bad thief—he might be
black. of the other side of town. of Muslims who hate his “way of life” crowned
by death on every corner. There’s no other way out.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Mostly Jesus shoots his wife. or his wife
shoots him (they are not always sober). Occasionally Jesus shoots up a
school—but that is his own personal responsibility. Jesus, after all, will live
forever. unless he decides to shoot himself—which is the most common use of a
handgun in the United States of Jesus.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Old age should burn and rage at close of workday; <br />
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Their frail deeds of labor danced in a green workway, <br />
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Curse, bless me now with your fierce Republican tears, I pray. <br />
Do not go gentle into that old minimum wage. <br />
Rage, rage against insufficiency of the wage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Newly uploaded to Bandcamp, <i>Sputnik</i>, the aural companion to my anthology of stories and poems about the mystery of place, <i>Sojourner</i>. Here for your streaming and downloading pleasure are 17 pieces from the book and two others that didn't quite make the cut, performed a Capella, with drums, with music, and sometimes other, more interesting sounds. If you already own the book, help yourself to this free download, otherwise consider donating a bit o' cash towards all the artist's hard work here, or sending me a whopping 15 Euro through Bandcamp/Paypall, for which I will mail you a signed paperback copy of <i>Sojourner</i> anywhere in Europe, the US, or Canada.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And Debra, Lee and Debra.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">San Francisco</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">as sandstone against her palms</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,neither pearl nor rose, to prove</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">against my stony heart</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">not yet come to the apex</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2/14/2011</span></span></span></div>
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