H2Omeloncholy: May 2020

Sunday, May 31, 2020

One Thousand & One H2Omelon-Seedy Nights

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The following image may be deemed unsuitable for most audiences; this blog categorizes it as privileged perversion of both Black Trauma Porn & child exploitation.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visits a site of the protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, in Wilmington.

Image Credit: Reuters via Biden Campaign

SHYLOCK: ('Looted') MERCHANT of MINNEAPOLIS

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,

{neck...knees...last breath...}

dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with

the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject

to the same diseases, healed by the same means,

warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as

a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?

If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you {lead}poison

{our water}, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not

revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will

resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,

what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian

wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by

Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you

teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I

will better the instruction.

Enter a {Public}Servant {in the guise of CAMPAIGN PHOTO OP *}

Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 1

* Too soon after Breakfast Club condescension and frankly:
- '05 credit card co. cozying
- '02 Iraq vote
- '94 Crime Bill
- '91 Hill hearing/Thomas confirmation
- '75 Busing vote
Just too soon, Joe.  One thousand AND ONE nights. That night lands on Tuesday, November 3, '20. Not a day before tho'. Not ONE.  We shall vote, aye. We shall vote fo' the survival of this species. Now, howeva, we rage. We grieve. We insist upon our grief free from thy gaffe. *

a clever as compassionate critique

on the implausibility

of POSTness

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

that wears the crown

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Corona defined: Latin for "crown" or garland of 'supremacy'.

Under a microscope, the 'spikes' of Corona virus reminded some scientist of a crown. Hence the name.

Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, scene 1:

“uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"

Coronavirus surviver describes the acute respiratory distress thus: "an anvil on your chest".

Please, please, please...I can't breathe, please, sir.

George Floyd's final words upon death by ~~anvil on your chest~~ knee upon his neck. One (unmasked) officer's knee that does not release until ~~the ambulance arrives~~ minutes after the paramedic's assessment. Knee choking Floyd, the officer's hands remain in his pockets with sunglasses unflappably poised or 'crowning' his head. Three other (unmasked) police stand by, passing nine and a half minutes, as 'audience' - or Afro-Greek tragedian chorus - pleads for any form of 'ventilating' intervention on a Minneapolis street.

May 25(Memorial Day), 2020:

upon the week that the US begins to...'open up'...again...for bidness as usual.

I can't breathe...I can't breathe...(eleven times)...I can't breathe...I can't breathe...

{Help me into some house, ~~Benvolio~~ Orta,
Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,
And soundly too: your houses! *}

I can't breathe...I can't breathe...

July 14(French Bastille or 'Freedom' Day), 2014. Eric Garner's last utterance. A street ~~in Verona~~ on Staton Island.

*Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Act 3, scene 1

Ramsey Orta filmed Garner's death.