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"It is imperative to resist the disproportionate foregrounding of cishet male loneliness because the structurally oppressed manifest their benign loneliness symptoms differently from those who suffer from the malignant disease of thwarted entitlement." (via @mckenziewark)

“THE BUILDING OF THE SKYSCRAPER

The steel worker on the girder
Learned not to look down, and does his work
And there are words we have learned
Not to look at,
Not to look for substance
Below them. But we are on the verge
Of vertigo.

There are words that mean nothing
But there is something to mean.
Not a declaration which is truth
But a thing
Which is. It is the business of the poet
‘To suffer the things of the world
And to speak them and himself out.’

O, the tree, growing from the sidewalk–
It has a little life, sprouting
Little green buds
Into the culture of the streets.
We look back
Three hundred years and see bare land.
And suffer vertigo.”

–George Oppen

"And it’s not about a 'horse race,' either. That’s become the newest excuse for so many outlets sanewashing the fact that every time Trump opens his mouth what comes out is the elevator-blood from The Shining with some gobs of electrified shark and the fucking shards of Kristallnacht floating in it."

under the floorboards · of the bird arpeggio
circular skin-stir · of depths pellucid
& always, in the air · obscure motors

many moods · of turquoise mindful
what so whelming · in the wheels' turn
plans plaintive · to be pleased with & done

when the mechas marched · yesterday in Sarajevo
in the Congo where cobalt · is fetched for our phones
or today in Sudan · is your twitter mute

we demur in a mecha · credit cards & car wash
summer-cooled · salvific in fireworks
pick menu items · muttered in the last breath

by those held otherwise · than high-rent humans

"Instead of -ology, which comes from Greek, the Anglo-Saxons used the native noun cræft ('skill, power') to form words for sciences."