roachboy

best allegory i can come up with for the united states right now is norma desmond from "sunset boulevard"---a fading star who cannot face the fact that she is a fading star, whose living space is set up to keep her from having to confront the realities around her-----a great, glamorous star from a vanished era who cannot even begin to understand that the era is over.

i like to think this is a temporary state of affairs.
because it takes time to process radical change.
so total denial can give way to a path to recognition.
but this can also become an end.
living in a fantasy is easier than facing a changing world.
but opting for this rarely ends well.
watch the film and you'll see for yourself.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite