meditation on london sympathy

relations with comrade london
initially cold

grade 7 or 8
call of the wild
awful teacher
old white lady
gave me my first d
cant even remember
what for
or her name

not impressed
boy nature wolf story
just didnt speak to me

college i think
to build a fire
shorter
more urgent
dire

man vs nature
just not
theme i appreciate
i guess
but
clumsiness
that sense of

what has been done
cannot now be undone

in the worst possible way

i imagine that spoke to
me better

it was years later yet
mayday books of course
i laid eye on the iron heel
dystopian fiction from
the crypto socialist

not so crypto turns
rather unspoken often
hushed up but perhaps
a fact asserting itself
a little more now that
leftist ideas are if not
fashionable at least
a subject at all again

& the iron heel
well not the best dystopian fiction
ive ever read

honestly that honor would have to go
to 1984 & hunger games
in a fight to the death between them
maybe amiable defiant alliance

anyway
not bad prescient way
format somewhat innovative
its time considered

heard now by way
of the nature manly rumor mill
comrade london was into nietzsche
social darwinism too
complicating character
& strange kinship
synthesis of divergent tastes
must needs find
a biography

speak now mediocre brother
from the halls of the dead

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clearly ahead of my time

i stopped caring
about the oxford comma
before it was cool

yes thats a hipster joke

also apparently
grammars role
oppression
privilege
theres small growing debate
some of it sadly
tumblr
& out my reach

good times
good
times

clear communication nice
in business government whatever

choice
ambiguity
fascism
you know where i stand

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dont call it chaos

"Their error arises from their failure to allow there are different kinds of order. If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders."

makes me think
of every time ive heard
dismissals about chaos

in whose eyes
you have to wonder

are we missing
opportunities
for other orders
other stories

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post hipster art

looks like the seattle art scene
has made quite the gaffe
in thinking
one of their beloved artists
is just another hipster

what do you do with white nationalist art
once the irony is gone?
asks hyperallergic

the pitfalls of tolerance

how do you deal with intolerance?

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press 1 to plead guilty press 2 to plead innocent

article entitled paperwork against the people
tackling some very issues i have
even down to dmv

dissent quarterly
looks pretty cool check it out

so only thing i have
to add to all that
is that bureaucracy
though its existed more/less
since ancient china

so legend goes

hit its stride with invent
& sophistication of
the state
that bestest of our friends

just like how markets
transactions profit
commodities
all existed before capitalism

clerks paperwork
enlightened meritocracy
all existed before the state

but they wuv each other
so much

bureaucracy being
the mechanization of human society
paperwork being programming

even our justice system
just answer yes or no
boils down to binaries
two privileged storytellers
an official judge appointed
by the state
and a gallery of spectators

all that paperwork
contorting details
to fit in the box
called justice

never forget
especially as you sit in a meeting
a political meeting a work meeting
a public meeting
that death by committee
is an old old thing

and that the terror
hinged on a group calling itself
the committee of public safety

le comite de salut public
safety & health
the same reasons they shut down
occupy

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