Prickly City by Scott Stantis for September 03, 2022

I don’t get it.

^

Avoidance.

of the violent attempt to overthrow the government of the United States and the subsequent revelations of the [illegal] theft of top secret/SCI material and thousands of other government documents.

S2D2 ( Same Stuff Different Day)

This from Sparknotes on Slaughterhouse 5:

The phrase “so it goes” appears after every mention of death and mortality in Slaughterhouse-Five. This seemingly flippant phrase reflects a Tralfamadorian philosophy that comforts Billy Pilgrim: while a person is dead in one particular moment, they are still alive and well in all of the other moments of their life, because all of time exists at once. Billy appreciates the simplicity of the Tralfamadorian response to death, and every time he encounters a dead person, he “simply shrug[s]” and says “so it goes.” The repetition of this phrase also illustrates how war desensitizes people to death, since with each passive mention of “so it goes,” the narrator is subtly tallying the death toll.

Rise again, rise again – though your heart it be broken

And life about to end

No matter what you’ve lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.

Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

Stan Rogers

The sun’ll come outtomorrow

So ya gotta hang on’til tomorrow

Come what may

Tomorrow tomorrow

I love ya

Tomorrow

You’re always a day a way

Charles Strouse / Martin Charnin

profound

Sittin’ in the mornin’ sun

We’ll be sittin’ when the evenin’ comes

Watching the sun go up

Then we’ll watch it go back down again

Look like nothin’s gonna change

Everything still remains the same

I can’t do what news people tell me to do

So I guess I’ll remain the same, yes

Apologies to Otis