It was an offer I thought I couldn’t refuse: You can sit there and take it Or leave it Having nowhere to go

Funny how as the left lost its sense of humor it became a joke

And just like that the safety of ironic distance gave way to the false intimacy of over-proximi…

I know I’m losing an argument with my friends when my thoughts turn to lunch I know I’m winning when I’m about to lose my lunch

It was only after The social media firestorm Had burned our civilization down That we rose from the ashes Like a phoenix

Like the distended sleeve On the fake Gordon Gartrell Denise made for Theo A giraffe’s long neck Reveals it as

Everyone wants to live forever because fear is self-perpetuating No one wants to overcome the fear… because courage is selfless

History won’t begin when we elimin… hoping that now everyone will get… Because step 1 in ending status i… and step 2 turns out to be elimina… This simulacrum that we live in ai…

The United States’ motto is still In God We Trust but everyone knows that’s come to mean Don’t Get Your Hopes Up

For now American democracy such as it is is still getting the people it deserves

We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories

The Fed has one lever to pull– interest rates– to keep all of us consuming

Mysticism, esoteric knowledge, these are euphemisms for what’s hiding in plain sight: We are not alone

Acting locally solved climate change but now instead of a life or death situati… which at least had a degree of rom…

My curated self has asked me for a divorce