not by grace or rage

"Not by Grace or Rage," June 30, 2022 (#181)

title from Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub (2001)

"The Black Phone" by Joe Hill (2005)

"Mr. Harrigan's Phone" by Stephen King (2020)

Telephone by Percival Everett (2020)

The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone by Brian Merchant (2017)

last line from "Black Box" by Jennifer Egan (2012)

Not by Grace or Rage

Did you observe that bullshit?

He had rolled out the academic red carpet

until moments such as this, when the pain

would have serious ramifications in shaping the

last of the winter’s snow melted. The hill behind

the tradition had been banned. Then he wished us well.

Take me, for example, I employ such nescience as

using their parts for this very first prototype of a

conversation with someone who meant to kill

the oxygen mask, but not the faint rasp of his

little significance, or perhaps transcendence,

a way to interconnect people. And that was the point.

Now our notorious narcissism is our camouflage.

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art by Mickalene Thomas (here)

Carrie (1974)