no kings is a facade for the democratic party.

 maybe the alarm can no longer be turned off, like the ringing in my ears. maybe we'll get used to it, just the way it is.

pain is like music, it can't be otherwise

conveyed.

 what ground is unconsecrated? where is not garden? what body cannot be moved?

 

And If You’re A Man

And if you’re a man and if you’re a factory
and if you’re a blonde modern city

You are for me the tired night
an engine cut
a voice on the brink of collapse

My earthen jar, you are, for a summer

— Nikos-Alexis Aslanoglou
(translation: Eva H.D.)

Looking is never neutral. To look, or to look away, is to take a position.

 Worldwide smackdown. Trump's just begging for it. Whatever happens after we leave this place, hon, we can say we lived in interesting times. Amen to that, hon. God bless our love.