This Week's Writing 12/2/22

a poem about Timothy Chalamée, Ye and the GOP's antisemitism, disappointing violent Santa, and more!

Hello again! It was a busy after-Thanksgiving week. Here’s everything I published, including three (!) poems. If you like my writing, consider becoming a Patreon contributor, so I can keep on keeping on.

An cheery epigram about eternal torment. (Asses of Parnassus)

A poem called “I Should Have Been Working But I Wrote This Instead.” (New Feathers Anthology)

A poem called “No Scones” about trying to buy an issue of British Vogue . (Welter Online)

The Trump/Ye dinner and the nightmare 2024 GOP primary to come. (Public Notice)

No mental health care won’t end mass shootings—and the GOP doesn’t support mental health anyway. (Public Notice)

Kanye’s antisemitism is also the GOP’s. (Independent)

The midterms were also a victory against fascism in Ukraine. (Alternet)

Star Trek: TOS, and the confused colonial feminism of “Friday’s Child.” (WoG)

Violent Night will make you believe it should have been a better movie. (WoG)

I was part of the Wealth of Geeks aggregated best movies of the year list. (WoG)

The Biggest Little Farm documentary didn’t need a sequel. (Nature of Home)

The Soft Moon brings the reliably lovely industrial goth mope. (Chicago Reader)