excessive levity

markets are drafted
into stock fists on actual horseback

see ya in alaska now that 90 degree days
are common + we float away on glacier melt

wildfire smoke flood tornado broad
applications of anthropogenic love for ma earth

physical comedy with the grim
red of precariousness of starvation + unemployment

higher than ever prices + fewer than ever benefits
die of neglect if u aint got ur own private rockets

voodoo economics without the gipper
frippery + witchery + cheap 19th century tactics

put the jacksonian back in treachery
bark loudly + carry a brownshirt in a backpocket

gimme dat ol time derision + white supremacy
look at da world weve made / look ma we made it

peacelove+happiness
aint we da sweetest animaloids going

goose stepping like a paradoxical network of birds
nesting in dat frayed nest on ya head

aint good for nuthin else anyway
never was

the future aint as good as it used to be
bittersweet + bowdlerized as it is

wartime astonishment / genuflection in da genocide
weve exploited ourselves for cheap

or for reasons of excessive levity

What I’m Reading:

Appeals to homogeneous nationalism had to be constructed against non-Caucasians. Of course, the concept or category of “whiteness” is itself an ever-evolving category. So non-Caucasian was a moving target, and the unifying animosity eventually had to be directed against outside others. Historian Richard Hofstadter has characterized this ongoing feature of US politics as the paranoid style, the perennial fear of outside others. 

— Noam Chomsky and Marv Waterstone / Consequences of Capitalism