When cholera threatens a nation or troops open fire in the rain

[sovay]

I just wanted to spend my afternoon announcing the poetry acceptance I woke up to and then finishing my film review from last night, but instead there is armed sedition—terrorism, treason—at the Capitol and I had so much wanted the stoking of this violence to be like the specter of a shooting war at the polls in November, all talk. I have not wanted a shooting war. What I want is this obscenity burned down and the earth where it grew salted and then burned over again. What I want is an actual democracy to survive.

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[kaffy_r]

Yes. I'm so fucking enraged, it threatens to choke me.

Congratulations on your poetry news.

[sovay]

Yes. I'm so fucking enraged, it threatens to choke me.

There are other people who should be choking. You're not one.

Congratulations on your poetry news.

Thank you. It just feels weird to make the delighted post I was about to before the national incels hit the scene.

[selkie]

I’m so sorry I ruined that.

[sovay]

I’m so sorry I ruined that.

Did you attempt a violent overthrow of the government of the United States in the course of their Constitutional duties? Then you didn't ruin anything.

[selkie]

I have had, gentlethem, a day.

[sovay]

I have had, gentlethem, a day.

It has been a day.

You at least handled a funeral. I ate some soup and listened to seventeenth-century witchcraft on repeat.

[selkie]

Not sure if today needed more or less Mother Gowdy, but the soup doesn’t sound particularly eldritch or unseelie or anything.