I'm finding more books on the shelf at the library than i'm getting from my queue, but one, Yellow Pine by Claire Vaye Watkins, was in my queue before I bumped it for another book. The waves were nice and big. I forgot my cameraphone, but waves are waves, and they busted up the ramp and erased the graffiti, which was a sad derealized picture. People can't just do what they want to do gnome sane. Also I got Paper Girl by Beth Macy and Triage by Claudia Rankine so I put aside Victory City by Salman Rushdie.

 If the privatization of the park is predetermined, where is the hope? 

 Someone said to someone whose son killed himself that it was predetermined, even from before the father was born. That's strange. That would mean that everything that happens is inevitable, and we have no will in the matter. Including genocide. No, some people may not be able to bear this world, and may choose their exit, but the world wasn't predetermined to be this way. Evil has been determined by the ruling class and capitalism to be the system, but the disaster we're living through is not predetermined or some godly plan. To think that humans were predetermined to murder masses of people and destroy the earth is fatalism, and insane. Why would anyone want to think that way? We may never know the answers but we have a mind to stay open and observing and keep asking why.

 I often wonder, What's that smell?

(from) Meteors

The forgetting is sweet and easy, like
a woman who loves horses or that pop song you heard
all summer long the year we realigned the planets

and the stars also, right up to August, when they fell,
and less spectacularly, we followed them.

— Eva H.D.

The rapid construction of data centers across the country is a part of a larger scheme: the merger of artificial intelligence with American militarism. The entanglement of Big Tech companies with the government has been plain for all to see. In a lot of instances, these private tech companies have been leased land on military bases to construct large-scale data centers.

Wolfgang Bronner, Black Agenda Report

We have to dream. Jonathan Ofir wrote today about time and music, relativity. And James Elkins wrote about literature and precedents. At the graveyard I thought about the relative time sense of birds. In the sense of wonder it seems there is no time. I thought how perhaps that's the time of birds, or other animals who live according to nature. Precedents are like dreams. Some of us recall them and some don't, but the dreams are inevitable and move with us, perhaps like birds in the periphery. I was going to say something, or rather write something. And then, and then... somebody said about my collage that it was like a story, but the story was just, and then... 

Do we dream for others. I think yes. I think that's what music, film, writing, basket-weaving, nests, oh, all art forms, are. Dreaming. We must be dreaming.