A different kind of person

is emerging in the coming generation, pragmatic, to meet the crisis.

No water fountain at Fairway Red Hook, Brooklyn

It's all splendid, yes, but if you're thirsty and have no money, you
parch...
The bottled water aisle has a a greater selection than anywhere I
have ever seen--it goes on for about 20 yards.
This is the ownership society for you.

a refrain

there's no money for that
and it's getting hotter.

Tears have Telomeres

and you get to the end of them,
dogs and cats got your showered grief
now hardpan for people

Belief as Habit

you believe something long enough & it becomes very hard to belief in
something else. this is why people are as fundamentalist about
terminal mortality as they are about the afterlife. you give up the
fight, succumb to the brain you've fashioned for yourself, because
the thought of undoing all that work just makes you tired...zeal is
easier; the magnetic furrows are there, ready to be exploited...

Acting the Result

is bad acting. So too is striving to orchestrate the world to cozen
to the leaders vs. followers model. As if the ruling class is not
the result of an organic process of cream rising to the top, but that
such a "result" must be engineered. There's some intellectual
slippage when adherents of so-called biological determinism feel that
they must take the determinations into their own hands and fashion
the world that way. The world is self-fashioning with respect to
motivated and skilled people vs. those who are not. That's perhaps
what conservatism used to stand for; the neoconservative new world
order is about imposition of the imposition of castes conducive to
corporate hegemony.

Our Rich Activity

a family trait - relishing in the vivid thoughts of how others are
bereft at our absence. savoring it in our minds like a shrinking
lozenge.