Everything Is Horrible

Everything Is Horrible

This Week's Writing 5/15/26

Back from vacation!

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Noah Berlatsky
May 15, 2026
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Hello all! Again a shortened week since I was away, but we’re back now and hopefully scribbling away again as usual. Here’s what I published last week.

Politics

Trump is destroying agriculture. Farmers aren’t happy. (Public Notice)

If your voters can’t vote, your messaging is irrelevant. (EIH)

Cultural criticism

Make rock music great again is not a left political program. (EIH)

Gaze like Beckham. (EIH)

Poetry

Tribute to one of my favs. (Meniscus)

James Tate

came right up out of the ground with a fifty pound
borscht. Damn

the pedestrians with too many legs.
I’m out here in the cosmos with an alien and a banjo and a
giant thing to be named later.
Call me dinner,
worms, purple.

Call me the police,
those fuckers in the night

Vacation inspired poem. (Five Fleas)

this is a perfect day
to never leave the house
again

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