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Covid Metamorphoses #48 – Coping Mechanisms
You need a good coping mechanism these days, when you take your kid for his annual check-up and the pediatrician’s office has 11 people sitting in the waiting room, and six of them, mostly parents, aren’t wearing masks. Like, if … Continue reading
Covid Metamorphoses #24 – Dreams
Stories about dreams are boring, but that doesn’t stop us from telling our stories. So what happens when we all start having the same type of dream all over the world? I’ll let you be in my dreams if you … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America – Epigram
‘Everyone alive knows, even if they don’t know they know. So you gentlemen know more than you think and are just pretending not to.’ –Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
Trout Fisting In America #50 – Prisons
Okay, before we get started: a show of hands. Any white person who has ever committed a crime please raise your hand, and please keep in mind that drugs like marijuana & cocaine are illegal, and prescription drugs w/o a … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America #47 – Racism
No not ‘race.’ Or ‘race relations.’ We’re talking about fucking racism, which is real in a way that ‘race’—an after-the-fact concept created to justify enslaving a group of people from a particular continent w/no scientific basis whatsoever since saying someone … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America #46 – Israel
I always thought the name of the country was an abbreviation for ‘Is real bad idea to occupy Palestine.’ The Israeli occupation and settlement (after settlement) of Palestine is immoral, illegal, and nearly-universally condemned. The only two countries on earth … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America #41 – The Future
Assuming Donald John Trump lives long enough, assuming his death is as tediously drawn out & painful as his own sick life, there is no headline too impossible to imagine. President called someone a nigger? Hey he’s said it before. … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America #40 – Chaos
Everything is chaos & flux as I write this—even me, the writer. This world is senseless and the stories we tell ourselves, the stories we pay money to watch and/or read, are little more than defense mechanisms, an attempt to … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America #38 – Buddhism For Motherfuckers
Parenthood can be a time of great inner turmoil for a woman. Yet parenting books invariably focus on nurturing children rather than the motherfuckers who struggle to raise them. This book is different. It is a book for motherfuckers. Buddhism … Continue reading
Trout Fisting In America #29 – Freewrite Aug 2017
And the poisoned lips of the servants spoke of fighter planes & white supremacy, their lisps dripped w/proclivities learned from bootlegged videos of french new wave films (just the nude scenes) and so they communicated through sighs & ennui, gravity-defying … Continue reading
