there is something between unfortunate and unnervingly bad in the degree to which the ship of state continues to be run by people who seem to watch a whole lot of tv. like a whole lot of it and who calibrate actions and/or statements by what plays there. it gives the impression of an entire government of people in offices watching c-span and game shows. this isn't a new impression, either. but from time to time it seems more present....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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