Category: Capitalism

summer

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june, you, monthlong solstice

your 30 days of day

of Light’s false dominion /

he suggests a good way to estimate
the number of roses on my climbing rose bush
is to count the number of buds and blossoms on one linear foot of branch

so, I do.

there are 60 or more

i probably missed some

then 6,000? or more?! on this eight year old gem

how many june bouquets, boutonnières and corsages they would a florist supply

instead,
i keep them all for future rose hips,

and refuse to prune
unless a branch cracks under

the weight of drenched petals in this year’s wild june rainstorms

so many vases i have filled this june.

i suggest that i may create a perimeter of this variety of rose
an impenetrable devastating fortress of thornage — a natural, beautiful “devil’s rope”

i once saw a group of mule deer clear an 8′ fence in colorado — without a running start, could a herd of robot dogs do that?

he sees i’ve saved old nails, screws and Mexican coke and beer bottle caps in an empty 3lb coffee tin

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American Imperial Corporation Terrorism

On By ©️K.T.2026In American Imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, Bolivarian Revolution, Capitalism, demons, Fascism, Free Palestine, Hugo Chavez, kill lists, Nicolas Maduro, United States of America, VenezuelaLeave a comment

The capitalist-imperial reach of the unrelenting American Doctrine and Policy of war-for-profit and profit-by-war might now only be checkmated by China, Russia and North Korea.

I remain steadfast in my long-lived support for the People of Venezuela and their right to the collective ownership, stewardship, management and benefit of their nation’s wealth of land and resources — which the United States of Corporations of America, historically and contemporaneously, has thwarted through dispossession, exploitation and greed — then, following the People’s Bolivarian Revolution, through sanctions, blockades, asset-seizures and threats to Venezuelan trade partners.

The US/CIA attempted to assassinate — and eventually did slow-kill Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez; now, early this morning, They have attacked Caracas, Venezuela and couped President Nicolas Maduro, kidnapping both he and his wife under a contrived, perjured, and empty USDOJ indictment.

THIS IS INSANITY.
THIS IS STATE TERRORISM.

and, Cuba will be next.

Solidarity with the People of Venezuela.

Solidarity with the People of Cuba.

America is a violent scourge on, and an insatiable, destructive and demonic presence in the World.

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that’s all i know

On By ©️K.T.2026In anthropocene, cancer, Capitalism, climate, Colonization, Congo, Death, dying, Earth, earthlings, ecocide, Existence, Fascism, Gaza, Genocide, Hell, kill lists, Liberation, Life, Life and Death, neoliberalism, Palestine, Poem, poetry, Politics, Sudan, true things, War, Zone of InterestLeave a comment
a companion truths poem to, and
influenced in part by, this most beautiful
dreamt song and these sweetly sung truths,
by Rodney Crowell.

my mother turned 75 years-old yesterday
and that’s all i know,
about her
anymore

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May Day, mayday.

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originally published May Day 2024, revised May Day 2025

workers of the world, unite!

The Haymarket Memorial 125th anniversary plaque dedication
April 30, 2011.
photo: by author

humans of the Earth, unite!

To The Comfortably-Numbed,

Petit Bourgeoisie:

“No Business As Usual During Genocide” — or — FASCISM!

15,000

no 30,000

Palestinian children, were murdered, not “died”

in seven, nineteen, months’ time.

300,000 — or more in Gaza on threshold of death by intentional starvation with consent of The West

you flaunt your epicurean life

while the workers and students and poets
and artists, all,
groundswell, to resist this violent, white tide,

// of the IDF

home and abroad,

training ICE

& your local SWAT precinct,

to disappear and deport //

and crucially, to liberate you — of the occupier & cop — living in your mind.

this is in fact,

the marketplace of one [1] singular idea:

Land.

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a breakneck, yet-always foregone conclusion

On By ©️K.T.2026In america, Autocracy, Capitalism, Essay, Fascism, inequality, lies, nationalism, neo-liberalism, neoliberalism, patriotism, threshold, U.S. Politics, U.S. PresidentLeave a comment

The rapidity with which this Trump administration moves — for those who had accepted incremental change, bureaucratic molasses and the long arc of justice as just par-for-the-course of the ‘democratic’ process and social progression in the US — those falsehoods and everything else that has been revealed in these last two months — is both mockery and insult added to our collective American (and global) actual injuries.

Capitalism and Neoliberalism paved the road for — and then engineered and constructed the super highway to, oligarchal fascism.

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The time is NOW for applied anti-fascist actions of resistance and desistance and acts of courage —firstly, by elected and sworn state and local leadership

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political & ideological opposition is meaningless now

Billionaire JB Pritzker, the current Governor of the State of Illinois in an annual constitutionally mandated “State Of The State” address of February 19, 2025, questioned the near and long-term State of the Union — of the United States of America,

the relevant paragraphs are excerpted below with a link to the full transcript:

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how doing became forgetting

On By ©️K.T.2026In abrupt climate change, anthropocene, Capitalism, Climate Chaos, Climate Collapse, Earth, Earth hospice, Earthling, ecocide, Fascism, Genocide, january, Manifest Destiny, mourning, nationalism, Near Term Human Extinction, planetary hospice, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sixth Mass Extinction, Sunrise, threshold, WarLeave a comment

Winter Sky Sunrises and endless Horizon, Mountains, Forests, Prairies and Waters were traded for cities, skyscrapers and highways, built and named by corporations, governments and militias to populate with executives, politicians, engineers, administrators, marketers, managers, soldiers and subordinates — the wealth of the corporate-nation city-state dependent on the slow, then fast, destruction of all the Land and Waters and Beings on Earth

the Earth, on which i stood to take this photo this very Morning — and, the Atmosphere, which made the Trees, the Snow, the Clouds, and the Sky colors possible at all, this very Morning.

steel towers, stone temples, asphalt streams, and concrete rivers built to ensure that our feet rarely touch the Earth, that our eyes rarely witness true Living and true Being,

that we look up or that we look down, but, that we barely look around,

that we rarely look within and that we that we never look beyond — so that we forget to remember.

the cities were designed and engineered for doing — which is the opposite of Being;

doing, which is a euphemism for undoing;

undoing, which is actually destruction — and which is ultimately,

a forgetting.

Forgetting to remember where we came from.

Forgetting to remember what we are made of.

Forgetting to remember what we were made for.

Morning of january 22, 2025

Our Elders say that ceremony is the way we can remember to remember. In the dance of the giveaway, remember that the Earth is a gift that we must pass on, just as it came to us. When we forget, the dances we’ll need will be for mourning. For the passing of Polar Bears, the Silence of Cranes, for the Death of Rivers and the Memory of Snow.”

— Robin Wall Kimmerer

from her Northland College 2015 commencement address
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january 10 2025

On By ©️K.T.2026In america, anthropocene, bucolia, Capitalism, Climate Chaos, Climate Collapse, Colonization, Crone, crone chronicles, Crone Consciousness, dirt road chronicles, Earth, Earth hospice, Earthling, Fascism, from the inner city to outer rural, Genocide, goodbye city life, heartbreak, january, kinship, Lamentations, outer rural, planetary hospice, PoemLeave a comment

a sweet spot, a warm, quiet evening,

of a too-soft winter here,

on & of the good Earth,

that tempts the comfortable one

to flirt with forgetting

the hard totality

of this hot and cold, man-made,

loud and brutal World.

on Christmas eve

On By ©️K.T.2026In anthropocene, apartheid, birds, Capitalism, Chicago, Christmas, Christmas Eve, Cities, december, earthlings, fauna, flora, kin, Lament, Lamentations, Poem, poetry, Proof of Life, son, wildlife1 Comment

i traveled a river of concrete in a machine,
you traveled an ocean of air in a machine,
babies crying, inconsolably, you said
i said, eustachean tubes aren’t meant for 30,000 feet.

i am not meant for this,
neither are you,
neither are they.

not the opposite of joy
on Christmas eve
but the false pursuit of it
whatever is actually contrary to it
even if we don’t know it when we see it.
even if we refuse to know it when we see it.

if i allow myself to cry, he will see it on my face.

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Our Sacred Heart of Courage & Justice, Santa Luigi : for domestic & international use.

On By ©️K.T.2026In 228 slaps, anti-capitalism, art is resistance, Capitalism, december, fuck the rich, inequality, kill lists, Luigi Mangione, neo-liberalism, neoliberalism, Revolution, Revolutionaries, Righoughts, Saint Luigi, Santa Luigi, thresholdLeave a comment
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the war on anti-terror

On By ©️K.T.2026In anti-fascism, anti-zionism, antifa, Capitalism, empire, Free Palestine, Gaslighting, Gaza, Genocide, holocaust, kill lists, Land Back, Luigi Mangione, Manifest Destiny, Nazism, Palestine, Politics, Revolution, Revolutionaries, Saint Luigi, State of Israel, U.S. Politics, War, War On Anti-Terror, War on Anti-Terrorism, ZionismLeave a comment

The US & Israel Joint Venture Capital Empire of Terror & Genocide ™️

hath no clothes.

composite image & text credit: Land Palestine

Luigi Mangione: I was going to use a bomb to kill the CEO but I didn’t want to harm anyone else

US Government:
This is terrorism

Netanyahu: We are using unguided 2000 pound bombs in a densely populated civilian area to level entire apartment blocks

US Government:
This is self-defence

Replicating anti anti-fascist and anti anti-zionist propaganda and gaslighting tactics, the political marketing class and sworn officials of the U.S. and New York State Governments cosplay as integrity police and justice arbiters, and attempt to manipulate both the rule of their false law and their false order to condemn, litigate and abolish the law of the streets and resistance movements for liberation and justice.

They will fail.

“What do you do? You wack the C.E.O. at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted, precise, and doesn’t risk innocents,”

passage written in a notebook attributed to alleged Anti-Terrorist, Luigi Mangione
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Dickensian Dollar Store Christmas

On By ©️K.T.2026In Capitalism, Chicago, Christmas, Cities, City of Chicago, december, Essay, from the inner city to outer rural, Gold, inner city, kinship, Lent, Portage Park, UrbanLeave a comment

a version of this essay was first published December 8, 2015

“Christmas is coming, 
the goose is getting fat, 
please put a penny in the old man's hat, 
if you haven't got a penny, 
then, a half-penny will do, 
if you haven't got a half-penny, 
then God bless you.”

I went to the nearest Dollar Store to buy old-fashioned, stringy, silver tinsel for our christmas tree.

All that glitters is not silver or gold, is never ever golden, whether you buy your pretty ornaments or wrapping paper for a buck – or two at Dollar Tree, Walmart, Target, Macy’s or Saks for $5, $10, $30 or $50. The only difference is the retailer’s profit margin — very rarely is there a difference in quality when it comes to seasonal items, disposable items and sundries.

The season of peace and beauty feels very false once you know and remember to never forget that all those beautiful ornaments and decorations adorning almost every American home, restaurant or holiday venue are made by women, children, or men in sweatshops who are breathing in lead dust, paint fumes, plastic glitter, chemicals and pigments often for less than $30 per 12-hour shift; all that beautiful crap then warehoused, shipped, stocked and sold by non-living-wage, multi-job workers in the U.S.

Yet, while I’m there roaming the aisles or in the long line to check-out, I feel an overwhelming sense of community with my fellow city dwellers — the shoppers, the store’s workers and with all the workers of the World — particularly those in Yiwu, Zhezhang, China who are mass-producing a vast majority of all of this shit.

silver tinsel, aka Icicles,
ironically & hilariously,
still made in the USA!

I also feel an overwhelming revulsion of the systems of ‘growth’ and development: capitalism, consumerism, and human and natural resource “management” which are uniquely undeniable in the fluorescent, depressive uniformity of the minimally staffed chaos found in a busy, urban dollar store,

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the Anti-Übermensch

On By ©️K.T.2026In anthropocene, apartheid, birds, Capitalism, Climate Chaos, Climate Collapse, Congo, Crone Consciousness, Death, Earth hospice, Gaza, Genocide, Gnosis, Gnostic, holocaust, kill lists, Mother God, Nietzsche, Palestine, planetary hospice, Poem, poetry, runaway greenhouse effect, Sixth Mass Extinction, SudanLeave a comment

if there was a Mother God,

if God was a Mother,

not “were”

this wouldn’t be
our reality

a dying planet
a deadened polity

mass extinction by chainsaw, net,
bolt-gun or bomb
they said, “96% of children in Gaza feel that death is imminent”
in Sudan, the famine is massive,
oh, this reaper, he is very discriminate
in Congo, there’s mass enslavement for minerals,
see the phone in her hand?! her hypocrisy?! she can’t claim to be innocent!
the Pacific’s so hot,
that it’s killed 4 million murres
while the Indigenous still invoke
“cultural rights” to baby seal furs

therefore,

God is either male — or, truer,
the God who created everything,
was the very first one extincted,
as Nietzsche,
and the german thinkers before him,
all, belatedly said,

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Open Letter to Americans

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Dear Americans:

When you finally realize that the solution to the economy — rent and groceries (not the stock market, not your investment portfolio), to health and healthcare, bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, the climate crisis, to environmental destruction — of land, air, and water and biodiversity, to wealth inequality, to systemic racism/white supremacy, to colossal, empire-sized military and police budgets — and endless overt and proxy wars and ongoing GENOCIDE — CAN NOT and WILL NOT be found in the BALLOT BOX — blue or red,

— then what?

then, what will you do? will you hope to ride it out quietly with whatever measure of privilege you possess (white male, white adult, middle-classed, usefully employed in the systems of government or institutions of political or corporate power)?

Will you finally rise up and do the necessary-yet-awful, brave, brutal and hard work to resist and fight — like every dignified human collective across history and even today — like the Palestinians? Like the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho? Like the Maroons of Haiti — or will you be like the Germans — roll over, fall in line, bide your time — hope they come for your neighbor or coworker instead; maybe even turn them in?

This “nation is a massacre”, it always has been

for tens of millions of people right here of and on this land — and for hundreds of millions globally — even if that excludes you and yours (for now).

Enough of this profane American existence.

Enough already.

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ghosts

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if you’re seeing this, you’re alive,

though dying — no matter your age, health, relative safety, relative comfortability —

on this living, though suffering and actively dying, planet

Earthlings and Earth together in a protracted hospice

right now, in these brief years, these grief years,

we are the “ever-living ghosts of what once was”

a “was” that most all of us alive this morning have never known as lived experience — save for the untouched tribes — 10,000 Uncontacted Peoples — 10,000 unsystematized, “uncivilized”

and the Ocean, and the few, still-standing Ancient One Trees; the untouched Desert, and the Mountains — even the youngest of them — The Tetons and The Himalayas, know what it “was” to be alive.

we are mere ghosts, walking dead.

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