sovay: (Sovay: David Owen)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-01-31 05:29 pm

I saw your face in a magazine in a fever dream and it cut me out

I am sick of terrible things happening when there is no need for them to. I am not talking about the inopportune but natural wind-down of entropy; I am talking about acts of cruelty and conscious destruction. It is not news and it is commonplace, but I am sick of it.

I have to wish my maledictions very carefully: a rising tide of disaster drowns the most vulnerable first. May those people who are capable of nothing but destruction reap it; may the rest of us live to build our world.

From Jill Lepore's "The Last Time Democracy Almost Died": "Don't ask whether you need an umbrella. Go outside and stop the rain."
gwynnega: (John Hurt Caligula)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2020-02-01 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Co-signing that malediction.
cynthia1960: cartoon of me with gray hair wearing glasses (Default)

[personal profile] cynthia1960 2020-02-01 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
Me too. It focuses the wrath on those who have earned it.