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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[nineweaving]

And there sits the child emperor amid the ruin of his toys. “Now with real mob action! Rule of law not included.”

Damn him. Damn them all.

Nine

[sovay]

Damn him. Damn them all.

I want them hanged in chains.

[nineweaving]

I was going to say, "For the crows," but the crows know poison when they smell it.

Nine

[choco_frosh]

Dilexisti omnia uerba praecipitationis, lingua dolosa. Propterea ds destruet te in finem: euellet te, et emigrabit te de tabernaculo tuo, et radicem tuam de terra uiuentium.

[nineweaving]

Now that's what I call a curse! Unlike crows, the Erinyes aren't dainty.

Nine

[sovay]

Now that's what I call a curse!

It's from the 52nd Psalm. I am hoping the bit about all of us flourishing like olive trees when those who glory in malice and injustice are laid waste also applies.

[choco_frosh]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/PsalterBLStowe2Folio56rInitialQ.jpg

[sovay]

Nice.