moderately thunderstruck

"Moderately Thunderstruck," March 18, 2022 (#77)

title from "Apt Pupil" in Different Seasons by Stephen King (1982)

Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means (2000)

Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower (2009)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (2007)

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America by Darnell Moore (2018)

Moderately Thunderstruck

The wasted fields and wooded area slated for development soon

turned out to be something that a dozen good neurologists couldn't

start somewhere here, figuring out why we’re in such a mess, you.

We tried every operational approach in the book, and committed our most

brutish masculinity that prevents us from feeling, enabling us to terrorize

one of those strange, twisted voices, half yokel but with a hint of some kind of

primping, yet the outfit bespoke an intensity and strangeness of affection that

always wanted something very small, something I could walk to, something

engineering designs for chemical plants, and state-of-the-art turbines

likened to a kingdom black boys are expected to provide for, fight to protect.

I used to stop and pause at those places. It was as if the soul had lifted up from

all champagne and gold toilets down here. I got people on call to put grapes in my

psychological needs which demanded satisfaction earlier than I supposed

the ultimate in science and technology to improve our intelligence take

to return home to reconnect to all that really mattered.

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3-18-22

3-17-22

From Love Liza (2002).

From The Power of the Dog (2021).

From here. Illustration by Álvaro Bernis

painting by James Abbott McNeil Whistler.

painting by J.M.W. Turner.