This Week's Writing 2/14/26
lots of glum poetry
Published a bunch this week. As always, I’ve got some music for paid subscribers to listen to after the paywall. Become a subscriber! Feed my cats! Support my writing! It’s $5/month, $50/year.
Here is writing.
Politics
The blowback to Trump’s racist video shows his weakness. (EIH)
Why AOC should run for president (EIH)
Trump’s polls make stealing elections harder. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
Yoonshin Park’s out-of-the-book book art. (Observer.com)
Yeats’ “The Second Coming” is a fascist poem. (EIH)
Soderbergh’s Traffic is sententious Oscar bait copaganda. (Splice Today)
Reprogramming Murderbot for Television. (EIH)
Embittered make blackened death postrock for gnostic seekers. (Chicago Reader)
Goran Ivanovic’s guitar music goes around the world. (Chicago Reader)
Red Dawn, white guile. (EIH)
Poetry
Two short glum poems. (Five Fleas)
Each day is its own
failure, add them up
and down.
Someday I will learn how to perform
simple life tasks.
But not today.
And hey, two more glum poems. (Five Fleas)
one final vote
on whether we ever
get to vote again
When you have a child
you wish many things
and one is to die
before they do.It is a long race
and you start well ahead
and you lose if you’re standing
at the end.
From the Archive
Democrats Should Still Nominate Women for President
Representative Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez is currently engaged in a nationwide series of rallies against oligarchy with Senator Bernie Sanders. The tour seems designed as a kind of passing of the torch; Sanders has been the leader of the left wing of the Democrats for the past decade, but he’s now 83, and is encouraging his followers to embrace AOC as his …
