what kind of place are you in
when you start thanking birds for not shitting on you
to be sure
there was context
to his thinking and thanking
his kid brother was a birdshit
magnet
every time he visited from Chicago
taking in the wilds with him
birds shit on him
at least once a day
and healthy shits not dibdabs evacuating
their bowels wholly
he could swear the emptied birds popped
up in the airstream like buoys their ballast
shat
yes indeed(who used indeed any
longer) what place
well
he knew where he was
he occupied himself his time with
nonfiction and worthwhile fiction books and bounced between them as he assumed
people channel-surfed their impossible-to-choose-from multiple cable stations
he quit watching television cable years ago
which he easily defended from
agog disbelievers because he was from a time when television had quality
NBC CBS ABC PublicTelevision who
suspended programming overnight
nothing was too important to
receive 24/7 coverage sandbagged and
bitchslap
televisions death knell(Heil!)
was Reality Television
it was horribly apparent as talk
around the watercooler blanched insipid inane
things fast becoming in—
insincere
to him there was hard news
documentary and mindless entertainment
-- sitcoms -- he
got the necessity
now there was the slick slimy
infortainment
utter shit
however -- if
people have been dumbed down -- why wouldnt they think that infotainment was
evolved that its premise was good
he would counter with Camus(who) Memory is the enemy of totalitarianism
because he knew America forfeit
its memory America gobbled up news cycles everything predicated on news
cycles and the Industry only had to serve America its spike its fix one long intravenous day at a time
rarely did any news bleed into a
second cycle and those that did to his
mind shouldnt have
they reminded him of the stink of
shit that continues to pervade an atmosphere even after it was removed
he was tired of their blank stares
when he interrupted their useless jovial conversation with hard
news
hed say his piece(pleasing
himself)
their silence screaming
then excused himself
he spelled America A – M – N – E –
S – I – A
elevenish, Monday,
17 10. 16
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