04 August 2025

From May 9, 2020

We are all joined to each other in this pandemic, you fools.

It is not that "one death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic," as Stalin is supposed to have once said, in his infinite wisdom (a god-like wisdom that seems even more applicable today, in our current political situation, than ever before, which is better suited to Stalin, than ever before), but that every death is a tragedy implying, or rather, insisting upon one to four more tragic deaths, on an exponential level--yes, and they infected two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on....

The current administration fumblingly, bumblingly believes it can outpace this pandemic, because it believes that, statistically, "white people don't get it." The only thing that really makes sense out of that statement is that white people don't get that they can get it, the virus, and its accompanying disease, COVID-19, which, amazingly, expresses itself differently according to population, age, and preexisting condition.

Look to our brothers and sisters in Europe, you fools. Can you not see that its expression in Italy and the UK--alone!--shows its virulence among, so-called, white people? The fact that our most vulnerable people--black and brown and native and immigrant people, who, whether you like it or not, are attached to all of us as by an iron umbilicus, who are our brothers and sisters, whether you like it or not, whose every last fucking death or sickness is a tragedy to us, whether you like it or not--whose death and sickness is really the canary in the coal mine, means that this virus has spread to every last corner of our country, whether you like it or not.

We can't play this game of letting people of color, who just so happen to provide the essential work in the fields and factories of this nation, die or sicken because we both think their lives don't matter and that this virus doesn't apply to us. This is one of the things, before this most obvious time, that was meant when someone tried to tell you that Black Lives (Actually) Matter, you fool, you ignoramus, you stupid, stupid monster--yes, monster!--you lazy Nazi, who allowed Nazis to appear in our streets, with their guns and their swastika flags, and said nothing: this makes of you a Nazi, too, you, you fool, who said nothing and stood by, until they, or the virus, came for you. 

And can we tell the difference anymore between a government who does not close but opens the way for a virus to come for all of us--as it surely is already doing--and the virus itself?

I weep, daily, for my nation, and the fools whose every life is a gift and every death--each and every one--is an unbearable and preventable tragedy.

If you think this virus isn't coming for you and your family, you, or I, will be proven wrong, very soon.

23 April 2025

You always already lost

You always already lost
for Daniel S.

You always already lost 
Beloved. I don’t have words 
To make you speak
Anymore. Nor would I 

Know how to try to. 
You always already lost
Beloved, how could I try
To corral you into 

Another space where
I could control you? I
Cannot have that 
Power. You always

Already lost beloved,
I tested you on the facts. 
I made you tell me
You still loved me, despite 

The damage and the thrill. 
I thought you were the love 
Who lasted no longer than 
The length of smoking 

A cigarette, but now I 
See, when you are dead,
That your presence lasts
For the only lifetime

I have. Goodbye, my friend.