Pandemic Laments

My depression is deeper

than yours.

My existentialism is darker.

You have Kierkegaard.

I have Sartre.

My nihilism is bleakest.

I can’t imagine Sisyphus happy.

“I, quite unexceptionally, distrust the publishing marketplace as saying anything about a person’s capacity to produce useful work; meritocracy is as cruel an ideology in these places as any.”

— Jos Charles