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.

Comments

[choco_frosh]

OH GOD SOMEONE TAKE HIM, PERSONALLY, UP ON THAT

[selkie]

I haven’t used a mace or a flail in just years but I did want to volunteer.

[sovay]

I haven’t used a mace or a flail in just years but I did want to volunteer.

I vote flail. You really don't want to be too close to a man who may deliquesce when you get a good whack in.

“The Damp Man”

[nodrog]

Weird Tales, July 1947

http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-damp-man.html