VOGUE copyright Conde Nast
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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.
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Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, scene 1:
“uneasy lies the head that wears the crown"
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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, 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.
*Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet, Act 3, scene 1
Ramsey Orta filmed Garner's death.
a clever as compassionate critique
on the implausibility
of POSTness
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Very poignant, KM. How the hell can we respond except in postness? It's done. And dead. And dead again. We can respond in premonition. But that's a given. Pandemic? What about the pandemic in uniform? No burning, no riot, no outrage, no vaccine against that. Mercutio's plague settles in for the long night.
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