The Bold, Enduring Menace of Courtship Is Upon Us Like the Plague, and None of Us Can Say What Trouble Will Be Precipitated Once It Has Had Its Way With Us

The moment I heard Biden's *garbage* gaffe last week I absolutely knew Trump would win. I figured he would win long before that because motherfucking professional Democrats abandoned core constituencies trying to win the hearts of Karens in the Philly suburbs (and a gigazillion other damning reasons, starting with the candidate), but Biden reminding every vaguely wavering cracker viscerally why said cracker hates motherfucking professional Democrats and their shitlib zealots the clincher

My processing plan for the next week

Does it matter, I said to a colleague wallowing in genuine grief and bafflement and fright, whether motherfucking professional Democrats suck on their own or suck for the benefit of their shitlord owners and donors? Are you saying, she said, that Democrats tried to lose on purpose? Yes, I said, but even if the answer is no they were forbidden to do what they needed to do to win even if they were smart and brave enough to try, which they weren't and never will be

Will try not to spend too much tablet-space duhhing for me, will try henceforth to leave all duhhing about this here to the grid, not blather the monologues, taint the paintings

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LEAVE THE HAND IN

John Ashbery

Furthermore, Mr. Tuttle used to have to run in the streets.   

Now, each time friendship happens, they’re fully booked.   

Sporting with amaryllis in the shade is all fine and good,   

but when your sparring partner gets there first   

you wonder if it was all worth it. “Yes, why do it?”   

I’m on hold. It will take quite a lot for this music   

to grow on me. I meant no harm. I’ve helped him   

from getting stuck before. Dumb thing. All my appetites are friendly.   

Children too are free to go and come as they please.   

I ask you only to choose between us, then shut down this election.   

But don’t reveal too much of your hand at any given time.   

Then up and pipes the major, leave the hand in,   

or change the vows. The bold, enduring menace of courtship is upon us   

like the plague, and none of us can say what trouble   

will be precipitated once it has had its way with us.   

Our home is marshland. After dinner was wraparound.   

You got a tender little look at it.   

Outside, it never did turn golden.