Eugène Delacroix. The Death of Sardanapalus. 1827. Musée du Louvre.
“This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run.” —President Donald Trump, press conference, February 24, 2025
Who was it said, Murder is suicide
with mistaken identity?
That’s what those school shooters
are all about—
Why Hitler sought to exterminate the Jews;
Why Stalin wiped out his former comrades with the NKVD;
Why Mao launched his Cultural Revolution;
Why Caligula wished all Rome had but a single neck
That he might hack off its head.
Sound familiar? I could go on:
Why hunters madly seek out game to kill;
Why sapients, unbeknown even to themselves,
advance the murder of their Mother Earth . . .
We identify our world with ourselves
—and vice versa:
The casual blasphemy of OMG.
Thursday, February 27, 2025
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