the hellscape of capitalism

"The Hellscape of Capitalism," July 9, 2022 (#190)

title from "Bryan Washington on Why He Loves Houston" (July 4, 2022)

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (1999)

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov (1951)

Talk Talk by T.C. Boyle (2006)

Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters and How to Harness It by Ethan Kross (2021)

The Hellscape of Capitalism

I don't belong anywhere and nobody cares. And you're no help. You are

gloss and the white lines would be repainted with liquid chalk from

the cop. He was the one. He was responsible for all this

about ourselves with others. In a particularly compelling

Second Coming. I have to come straight home after school unless

she would sob later in her room—which was no longer next to

the mind and in the residual silent beat of the iamb that was as natural,

he’s a cerebral problem solver unencumbered by the distractions of

yellow marshmallow chicks. Before my grandparents died, they

remain perfectly silent, as if he had expired. After a while, he ceased

its substance, and then it closed in again, and he was having trouble

in the trash. This mere onetime reliance on a ritual improved

one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive.

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7-7-22 of art by Norman Rockwell

Elvis (1979)