Unfathomable Pinheadery

"The Party" by Vanessa Stockard

they killed him for this

Take the outsider. Whiten the outsider. Take the violence. Aestheticize the violence. Corsets. Flower crowns. Latex. Softcore pornography in ribbons. Plunging necklines. Take the mud the dirt the miremuck of disgraced colonial history. Make it editorial. Make it swing flaccidly towards camp, yes mama boots the house down. Take the class rage. Sell it as background atmosphere, thoughtful addendum, glorious footnote of gold. Take the gaping racial wound. Disappear it. Call its absence “modern.” Then stand there, powdered and well-funded, asking why everyone is being so dramatic about the missing body.

3. agonizing over the present

かわかみはるか

She takes my brown mouse... It's just goddamn

andromeda’s a big, wide open galaxy nothing in it for me except a heart that’s lazy