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By the Pound
Sometimes, I feel like I’m dragging
around a bipedal bag of meat
for no reason.
Everywhere I look, there is
conflict. Either it’s a comic
taking easy shots at the coming tyrants,
(oh, they’re coming), or it’s an angry white
male with a microphone, restoring order
with a padlock and keys and a combination.
Or it’s a movie about a man’s friendship
with an astonishing, sentient octopus,
opening our hearts with tenderness and nuance…
juxtaposed in my screen life with an ad
for raw baby octopus for sale
by the pound.
Governor Hochul has identified
Creedmore Psychiatric Center as a
destination for the frightening overflow
of illegal migrants. Protests all over the neighborhood.
Where will they go? Who will welcome them?
They are routinely cut up by the media, and
sold by the pound.
