by Khalypso: no & i have only just considered stopping. / it doesn’t hurt enough. the pain has only just settled / into the grooves—maybe there’s spendable gold
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Remediation
by Whitney Curry Wimbish. Connie practiced her gratitude meditation as she drove home. If she listed everything to be grateful for, she would see how rich she really was, and she would get happier and happier. She tried to think of every single thing, right down to the fact of her existence. To life itself!
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The Canon of American Tragedy: Luke O’Neil’s Welcome to Hell World
by Saritha Ramakrishna. In the foreword to Welcome to Hell World, Luke O’Neil admits that he does not know what his book is. It covers a lot: loneliness and addiction in all their forms, absurdity and cruelty and how they’re often paired together, people as soft matter shredded by this nation’s exploitative systemThe collection hits upon all the major works in the canon of Americanness: opioid addiction, the border wall, climate change, pollution, the healthcare system, police violence, mass shootings, etc.
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A Lesson in Safe Logic: On Liberalism, the Arts, and Quarantine
by Annie Levin. Liberalism, as it is observed in this nation, is an ideological void on whose surface any New York Times reader might see themselves reflected. So, the role of the writer is to burnish that void to ensure its polish is maintained.
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What Do You Regret? (Excerpt)
by Stephanie Kaylor. The days I am tired after bed because my bed is my office and I recall its etymology, pertaining to moral duty, performance of a task; the days I think what it means to go to bed after that, how I dream myself
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Submissions Call – Protean Issue 3: Breathing Room
The Italian communist philosopher Franco “Bifo” Berardi devoted his 2018 book Breathing to our “contemporary condition of breathlessness”—a condition which has only grown more acute in the years since its publication. Berardi frames the act of breathing as “a vibrational search to attune oneself to one’s environment.” Yet to do so in this era would…
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Dear Mr. President: I Hope This Letter Finds You Ill
The first days of October have tallied one point in the column for the existence of a just and moral God. Trump has the dreaded virus; he and a number of high-placed cronies have contracted the Red Death because they wouldn’t wear a Masque.
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Mural of an Alligator in Aviation
by Ernest Tjia. At the Charlotte Douglas Airport there is a mural / featuring an alligator flying, wearing a yellow / dress shirt that has been tailored-fit to
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Capital and COVID: Why the Left Needs Disability Liberation
by M.K. Anderson. I’m not the only disabled American who’s struggling. Currently, about one in four Americans have a disability, and they are far more likely to be poor; half of people in poverty have a disability. The pandemic won’t improve matters.
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Protean Pirate Radio: Ep. 6, Planting the Seeds of Militant Labor Organizing at Dandelion Cafe
On this episode of Protean Pirate Radio, Kyle and Mel sit down with the former workers of the Dandelion Community Cafe, The Seeds, where they walk us through their fight to unionize their local Orlando, FL cafe. You’ll hear from Travis, Bob, and Julia as they tell us how they and their fellow workers came…
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