Save me from myself, please! As I descend into a possibly terminal state of Toxic Earnestness on a pikestaff "BEST OF MY BLOG" Here I revisit a strangely still-relevant post from July, 2020. Mice still scurry, cockroaches practice their tight-rope walking, Karens still shriek and white people are still wastes of skin in Range Rovers. … Continue reading COVID-19 Pandemic and Racism Endemic Have F**ked the Funny Out of Me
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Semantic Bleaching
"Life on hold sucks!"read the bus shelter ad. They meant the pandemicI suppose But what wry, ironic understatementIf you think of The awesome reality ofLife on hold. Customers in the supermarketFrozen in placeGripping Yorick skulls of well-traveled lettuceInfinitely poised at the switch fromSucculent to wilting; Cash register drawersPermanently openAnd you with your hand always thrustIn … Continue reading Semantic Bleaching
A Forced March Into an Already-Old New Year
Lockdown lunacy, a challenge for Nicole—and Trump's "come-as-dumb-as-you-are" farewell party, with sparklers. I’M PANDEMICKED, WHO ARE YOU? ARE you Pandemicked, too? Did you awaken this morning, as I did, with a stone for a heart, and emitting a groan that echoed through the inner city like twelve ambulances en route to a burning trap house? … Continue reading A Forced March Into an Already-Old New Year
Being Thankful is SUCH a Bitch
PLUS: Come back to daddy Yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving, which always takes place on the second Monday in October. I can already hear everyone tittering condescendingly about our sad, off-kilter and irrelevant Canadian habits and how we're just so obviously and sycophantically trying to be American, like little brother checking his pee-pee, then peeking at … Continue reading Being Thankful is SUCH a Bitch