b-movie cycle: ii. Got ‘da Soylent Green Blues

If you can’t afford the entire Soylent block—
Git’ yerself’ a bag o’ Soylent Crumbs.

Soon as I get up the nerve,
Soon as I slip this green ether,

Ima’ goona’ git’ scooped up—
Like so much flotsam or microplastics

Circa, 2022. We’re 40 million strong—
In ‘dis ‘burg o’ softball-helemeted jackboots.

Chaos—oh the humanity of it—
As far as the eye can cloud…

Just remember that crunchy green block—
Soylent Green—Is People!

And it’s my turn,
Any moment now…

To get processed.

What I’m Reading:

Arendt also warned that while the totalitarian regimes of her time would invariably fall, the contexts and thinking that permitted them might well linger into the future, taking on new forms in response to new circumstances, certainly, but building on a political and cultural rot that had taken hold sometime earlier . . . many of the elements Arendt first identified with totalitarianism thinking have crept back into our political culture.

— Lyndsey Stonebridge / We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience