This Week's Writing 11/11/23

Biden's bad polls, Richard Wright's haiku, and more!

If you read one thing by me this week, read:

“Complexity” shouldn’t be used as a weapon of war. (EIH)

Politics

Biden’s polls are bad. But he keeps winning elections—which seems more important. (Public Notice)

Cultural Criticism

Richard Wright wrote a ton of haiku right before his death. They’re great. (Splice Today)

The best 25 albums of the 70s. (EIH)

The long war between highbrow and lowbrow. (EIH)

Porn is normal; sociology is weird. (EIH)

Poetry

Little winter haiku. (Five Fleas)

Winter rain feels nothing
but I am getting frostbit
writing cold haiku.

Little fall haiku. (Five Fleas)

Autumn, will you stop?
The leaves fall; the clock turns back.
But the leaves still fall.