Originally published in Our Times Fall 2018 – Illustration by Pui Yan Fong Can “union intelligence” wake us from digital sleepwalking? “Flying through cyberspace ain’t like dusting crops, boy.” Or so Han Solo might have said to Luke Skywalker, if they were trying to evade any online “Imperial entanglements”. Over the years I’ve […]
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Music for a funeral: Remembering 41
O yeah yeah I remember George Herbert Walker Bush Sure I remember his creepy disjointed white man grin And the way he ran the CIA And became de facto president After Reagan was shot And I remember The way Some say He became de facto president before Reagan was shot So read my fucking lips: […]
sometimes these small things
Sometimes, the world gets a little better. like the other day, it’s a small thing and I’m embarrassed to even be talking about it to register it as progress such is the state of things such is the state of my apparent heart but we should still poem about it, we should still poem about […]
I’m never really sure
The hard frost has come or has almost come I’m never really sure But something has rendered the chard The slick purpleblack chard from Planet Perfection As soft and sweet as it could earthly be. My gratitude wakes from its nap And instantly starts to cry Sobbing for mama, alarmed at its own limbs Unfolding […]