You know I love your haymaker kisses

[sovay]

I am either still sick or sick again, I slept badly despite going to bed at midnight, and I am furiously concerned about tomorrow's election. Less about the people than the cheating. The disenfranchisement. The voter suppression. I am worried that millions of people will vote in the right direction—as they did before—and the structures will be so rigged it won't make a difference. And then I don't know how I will keep everyone I love alive.

In the meantime, since there is nothing to do but behave as though we have a future—

1. I will be reading next Friday at Porter Square Books. Come and hear me! It's kind of back-to-back with Saturday's event at Noir at the Bar PVD.

2. a_reasonable_man has written things worth reading about birthright citizenship.

3. If you want contemporary protest calypso, the Mighty Sparrow has you covered.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I am also furiously concerned. It doesn't help that this election is bringing back memories of election night two years ago.

As usual, I wish I had a teleporter so I could attend your reading!

That protest calypso is excellent.

[sovay]

It doesn't help that this election is bringing back memories of election night two years ago.

Yes. And that was an apocalypse that felt like a wrenching of the world, not one that felt all but signed and sealed. I don't feel this is an improvement.

As usual, I wish I had a teleporter so I could attend your reading!

I wish you did, too! It would be fun.

That protest calypso is excellent.

I have listened to it several times. I hope it is prophetic.

[jesse_the_k]

I am trying to breathe out slowly and evenly.

(I am so glad my mother didn't live to see this moment.)

The Mighty Sparrow is making my heart open up a little.

[sovay]

I am trying to breathe out slowly and evenly.

I have respiratory crud that is interfering with my breathing! It is not helping my usual protocols for centering and calming, etc.

The Mighty Sparrow is making my heart open up a little.

I'm glad.

[radiantfracture]

Love and concern and struggle.

{rf}

[radiantfracture]

(that's an offer, not an instruction)

[sovay]

Love and concern and struggle.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[selkie]

No matter what happens, we will vote. We will bite. We will if necessary bite harder.

[sovay]

No matter what happens, we will vote. We will bite. We will if necessary bite harder.

We are voting tomorrow. And I have got these teeth.

[selkie]

Keep breathing (I mean, despite the current inconvenience), keep those incisors pointy sharp, and keep the faith.

ALSO, YES ON 3.

[sovay]

ALSO, YES ON 3.

HELL YES ON 3.

[kore]

I am furiously concerned about tomorrow's election. Less about the people than the cheating. The disenfranchisement. The voter suppression. I am worried that millions of people will vote in the right direction—as they did before—and the structures will be so rigged it won't make a difference. And then I don't know how I will keep everyone I love alive.

That is just exactly about how I feel, yeah. I am not doubting the people, the voting citizens. But the disenfranchisement seems so widespread and shameless and it happened already and if it happens again now....I don't know.

[sovay]

But the disenfranchisement seems so widespread and shameless and it happened already and if it happens again now....I don't know.

I don't know, either. I'm hoping. I have to keep breathing no matter what. I've promised people.