my secret agent week

"we are the music makers,
we are the dreamers of the dreams"
- Willy Wonka

tropes are glial
combinations locking down
the threads
weaving weaving
clotho is my co-pilot
attack ships on fire island
"hello, sailor"
see beams glitter
in the darkness
she sells c-shells
buy buy empire
bye bye

"the totality retotalizes in each moment" - jp sartre

How it works.

"that took you 5 minutes!"
"no, it took me 30 years, and 5 minutes..."

Global Political Triage

When I was in the military we were taught to shoot to wound, if possible.

This is so that you take two or more people out of the battle, the injured soldier, and those who attempt to help him. It's a horrible but effective tactic, using the enemy's humanity and empathy against them.

Of course knowing that, one learns to make a sort of Triage with regards to the wounded. Some can be easily helped, some can't be helped, and some of them it's a judgement call, weighing the risks.

And so it is in the Larger Battle.

We must continue to find our own joy somehow in life, despite the horrors, lest we become another casualty and take our own friends out of the game as well. Your responses to the ills of modern life must be tempered by this sort of judgement call, as sad as that is. We're not going to win them all.

But by keeping that in mind, we can win the war.

(no subject)

radix, index
count the ways
the molecules betray
we have the technology
but the money isn't there yet
try so hard
but sometimes
even a star must shed
some plasmatic tears
flared and flayed
index, radix