Capitalist Sonnet
“Nothing Social Distances Like a Jeep!” (TV Message, 6/6/20) This baby knows nothing at all of shame. If he soils himself, his parent, diaper, bib, Look! New! Excrement added! he proclaims, Proud of the […]
In Times Like These
In times like these in which we are all in it together and <it> is times like these which we are all in we, the international corporate corporation’s propaganda arm wish to extol to you who are all in it together with yourselves how deeply we care about you whom we have terminated in one
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Lawfirm: A Religious Play
Cast Yale Lawfirm, one of the ten leading New York doctors Bruce, a Gordon setter Mrs. Lawfirm, Baby Lawfirm, Baby Lawfirm, friends to Bruce Stanley Dubie, a spackle and grout man One Messenger Another Messenger Kate Smith, once one or another’s mistress Chorus, people waiting for a bus Act One Scene One The set suggests
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The Election Show
I wonder do you have any idea how you look and sound to normal people? Your braying and shrieking supposed to indicate sincerity, your pandering, your condescension, your invocations of The People, as if you knew any, your focus-tested, shopworn slogans, your Issues. Lead-poisoned children are not Issues. Shit gigs are not Issues. Collapsing bridges,
The Keating Era
Going through an old file folder, I came upon a document that had somehow survived since the early 1970s. I only vaguely recall the circumstances surrounding its production. The Developmental Studies Department had gone on a retreat (the lingo back then for “paid vacation disguised as work”) to some rustic guest ranch somewhere out of
The Salesman Rex
2016 Popular Vote: Clinton, 65,835,514 Trump: 62,984,828 Winner: Trump “‘This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves: finally just lay back and say it – that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at