We Know What's Going To Happen
Our apolitical apocalypse and its unheeded lighthouse clarion calls
Shmoozing is fun even when you’ve got plenty of things better to do.
To be surrounded by art and artists,
By gallery and gallerists,
By contemporary and contemporists,
By money and moneyists,
By cake and cakists,
By Danke and Dankists,
By Arnold Schwarzenagger and Danny DeVito.
DeVito can really act, man. The guy pulls of suave like nobody’s business from four foot below sea-level.
I’m listening to wet brain again and trying not to get dragged into the rabbit hole.
Every time something good happens I want it to become EVVERYTHING. At least I realize that now. So I can temper my expectations when my fantasies over-consume my feeble meat matter.
I watched Rashoman last night. It was soooooooooooooooooooooo —
“I don’t understand” “I don’t understand it at all” — says man: the devil; the angel.
I want a Milady. I want one so bad. But I am running out of money and the PUA stops paying $300 a week on Labor Day. Will someone buy me a Milady for my birthday?
Mm - hmm - hmm - hmmmmmmmmmm: The LightHouse
I want to get a job but I don’t want to work for the capitalist doomsday cult. If someone would pay me to do research on like alternative energy systems or clean up the data files for some hospital or something I’d do that. But I bristle against bureaucracy and fear that diving into any political structure will draw energy away from my art.
So I’ll probably just get a labor job. I have to make moves soon because I’m in the Red zone my savings are running out.
Mm - hmm - hmm - hmmmmmmmmmm: The LightHouse
My ex is getting married and I have a Substack.
Mm - hmm - hmm - hmmmmmmmmmm: The LightHouse
In Stevie’s trunk, he kept a copy of The New York Times from March 14, 2020 - the day the pandemic was announced. In the blurb, the article predicted:
Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic... That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die. (Emphasis mine)
And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds.
Turns out we knew exactly what was going to happen.
We knew what was going to happen,
We were powerless to stop it.
Sort of like Miami underflooded sea-wall studded; Tahoe on fire; New York soaked with rain; Haiti cracking up; I-Kiribati evacuated; manslaughter encapsulated; colonial appetites run wild and the fruit of knowledge come due it’s the bill.
We know what’s going to happen.
Mm - hmm - hmm - hmmmmmmmmmm: The LightHouse