Thursday, April 17, 2008
The Political Crisis
-The public is demanding...!
-The public isn’t demanding a fuckin thing, and if it did, it’d have no fuckin
idea what it was demanding.
-But even in The Post this morning...
-Well there you have it. Those who feel they somehow represent the public,
or their protoplasmic gripes, are clambering over the expected rungs.
-But, many media are in our corner.
-Paid help. Chambermaids. Some of the pasty males even look like chambermaids. Wide-hipped queers.
-But we don’t really pay...?
-Just a few directly. Others in favors and flatteries. At any rate,
like a child is pushing a pile of plates at us: at a certain point
we must stop him.
-Sounds menacing.
-It might come to that, but we’ll diffuse this angry time with a commission.
-And they’ll get to the bottom of things?
-They’d better not. We have a cadre to choose from. Some have little brands
for independence. Uh huh?
-I sense a whitewash.
-It won’t seem that way, and the final report’ll be beautifully written.
-Does that make a difference?
-All the difference in the world. We stand for art in this way.
-Oh?
-Greasy, sleazy slobs make something beautiful.
-More beautiful than truth.
-Anything is more beautiful than truth.
-Truth is politics in drag.
-I wish I said that. And I’ll claim I did.
-The public is demanding...!
-The public isn’t demanding a fuckin thing, and if it did, it’d have no fuckin
idea what it was demanding.
-But even in The Post this morning...
-Well there you have it. Those who feel they somehow represent the public,
or their protoplasmic gripes, are clambering over the expected rungs.
-But, many media are in our corner.
-Paid help. Chambermaids. Some of the pasty males even look like chambermaids. Wide-hipped queers.
-But we don’t really pay...?
-Just a few directly. Others in favors and flatteries. At any rate,
like a child is pushing a pile of plates at us: at a certain point
we must stop him.
-Sounds menacing.
-It might come to that, but we’ll diffuse this angry time with a commission.
-And they’ll get to the bottom of things?
-They’d better not. We have a cadre to choose from. Some have little brands
for independence. Uh huh?
-I sense a whitewash.
-It won’t seem that way, and the final report’ll be beautifully written.
-Does that make a difference?
-All the difference in the world. We stand for art in this way.
-Oh?
-Greasy, sleazy slobs make something beautiful.
-More beautiful than truth.
-Anything is more beautiful than truth.
-Truth is politics in drag.
-I wish I said that. And I’ll claim I did.
