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:

The world’s oceans are on the brink of setting an all-time heat record, reaching temperatures that could roil marine ecosystems and sap the ocean’s ability to take up carbon dioxide from the air. Sea surface temperatures have already broken records for the past two months — boosted by human-induced climate change and a powerful El Niño event growing in the Pacific Ocean. The average surface temperature is now hovering just a few hundredths of a degree below the current recordfrom March 2024. “It just spells trouble for the planet,” says climate scientist Kristina Dahl.

— Jacob Smith / “Sea temperatures could hit all-time high” / Nature Briefing