This Week's Writing 7/18/25

poetry chapbooks! poetry books! also writing that is not poetry!

Well, as usual everything is horrible. I didn’t even give away all my poetry books! So, if you are still interested in becoming a paid subscriber, feeding the cat, and getting a free signed poetry book by me, you’ve still got a chance!

Here’s what I published this week.

Politics

Disasters are for the glory of Trump. (EIH)

We need to defund the police to fight fascism. (EIH)

Cultural Criticism

M3GAN 2.0 and female robots vs. the patriarchy. (Dame)

On Jordan Carroll’s Speculative Whiteness and fascism in SF. (New Humanist)

Frank O’Hara vs. Robert Lowell showdown! (Splice Today)

The music Cassie never got to make. (EIH)

Sinners and artists selling their souls. (EIH)

Nirvana vs. Sinead: battle for the future. (EIH)

Poetry

Two chapbooks out this week. (EIH)

A bunch of antifascist (and one antizionist) poem. (Strange Matters)

Poem for the billionaires in your life. (3rd Wednesday)

A Better Sadness

Imagine a billionaire.
He is sad.
So he drowns the world in something disgusting.
Mayonnaise jello, maybe.
Or antisemitism.
It doesn’t matter.
The point is that he does it because he is sad.
And if he were not sad
he would maybe not be a billionaire.
That’s the poetry of it.
And while you choke on lead paint
or misogyny
remember that at least you’re not sad
like billionaires. Your sadness
produces nothing and has no narrative value.
Take comfort.

Enough! (Five Fleas)

I have had enough
of insomnia, snoring, and death.