Weaponized Empathy
Warning against “innocencies.”
Morphed into legend. Poetry with justified margins. How Slinger became
Gunslinger. How do we abolish the police when we are basically living under a
police state? Claudia Rankine’s dog. The chorus (androgynous). LLCoolJ vs.
Danez Smith. I agree with that tweet and also that one. Eating the looted
cheesecake. Capitalism needs the unemployed to exist to keep its power.
“Potential intoxicants.” Oakland’s pro-black graffiti and San Francisco’s
anti-Chinese graffiti.
In a “Shutdown Mood”
I'm in the 12% tax bracket and I owe
$1373. Gloria Steinem’s boyfriends. Virtue signaling vs. signal boosting. I
guess silence is not a great weapon. Thomas Merton’s communist party name:
Frank Swift. The era of the power of secret directions. The apples have spoken.
Only do boring things if it’s fun. They gave Amy Cooper the dog back. I just
wish I was a monologuer. The ideal as something that you think is actually
happening. Anytime I'm not in my room staring at the walls, I'm probably
dreaming. I've never had as much fun as those girls in the audience.
How to Form a COVID-19 Social Bubble
All the journalists phrasing it as “the ‘I can’t breathe’
incident.” Sex as a concept. A Kylie Minogue cover by Clan of Xymox. I can’t
react to your reaction. I’ll eat a whole pumpkin. Best summer ever.
Movies with protagonists who have knee pain. Drinking a coke and eating
anything with butter on it. Roxane Gay is rich. The unclear fall semester.
Thanks to my housemate for always bringing up packages and the mail, because I
never leave the house. Power doesn’t need to wear a mask, despite the
aspersions cast by a culinary tour guide.
They Call it Gold Dust
My therapist wanted me to experiment
with feeling my feelings, and then all this shit hit with the protests and it felt
like martial law was coming, and I said, “Bad time to experiment with feelings!"
Erotic picture titled “Dispossession and Reinscription.” Erotic picture titled
“Provincializing the Domestic.”1 My friend sent me pictures of the
polaroids he took from VHS movies playing on his TV: Blood Tide, The Howling,
Horrors of the Red Planet aka The Wizard of Mars, Fire Walk with Me. “Attention”
changes little. Write a paragraph about the epidemic using the following words
and phrases: manners, sense, break the ice, awe, alienation.
1 Language from
Kay Gabriel’s article “Gender as Accumulation Strategy” found in Invert
Journal.
