This Week's Writing 3/8/25

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Another week of misery, though Goose is unimpressed.

Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

Trump’s crypto reserve is a grotesque scam. (Public Notice)

Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy showed his antisemisim. (EIH)

The boycott and the skeptics. (EIH)

Why do Ds and Rs react differently to election losses. (EIH)

Cultural criticism

James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner was written in 1823, but it understands MAGA. (Revealer)

James Merrill wrote a poem about criticism and I wrote criticism about it. (Periodicities)

Mickey 17 shows it’s hard to make a dystopia worse than the one we’re in. (Splice Today)

Atticus Finch would have voted for Trump. (EIH)

Poetry

I’ve got a new poetry collection! BREVITY from Nun Prophet; check it out! (Amazon)

A poem about careers and a poem about property. (Midway Journal)

A bleak vision. (Five Fleas)

Don't think of it
as getting older.

Think of it as
taking more pills.