no. 1032

“Every man is afraid of being a queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.”

Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man

no. 1031

 My cousin

who is young and angry

tells me at this point

she is waiting for the crash,

she is hoping for the crash,

she can only see a better world

built on the wreckage of this one,

so sympathetically

I try to remind her

that many of us

will be buried in that wreckage.

Plague Poems by @plaguepoems.bsky.social

no. 1030

 “The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.” 

Karl Kraus (1874-1936), journalist, critic and satirist

no. 1029