May you have reason to have thanks
May you have someone to share it with
May we remember the cost for that which we celebrate
May we have the wisdom never to repeat it
May we never take our ability to express that gratitude for granted again
May we all pass through to a time where we can be safe again
By Emmit Other
The only time
Monotheism
Wasnt speead at the point of a gun
Was the primitive Church of Christ
Nations convert to Judaism
Under a gun
Genocide is in the Torah
Genocidal blood drips from their lips
Of their cousins
Who strap bombs to themselves
Because their ancestors were converted
At the point of a fucking gun
And the fucking Chross
Spread with Imperialism
To every corner of globe
Under a fucking gun
So before you argue
Nu uh no it didnt
Explain why hard right fanatics
In every fucking version
Run to the gun for all their problems
To get their way
And gag me with their star crescent and chross?
If we shouldnt point a gun
Right back
And make monotheism go away
Consider
The original Christ
And love and peace and understanding
Or
You
Reap
What
You fucking
Sew
Who is Erich Ludendorff?
When the hurricanes hit
Finally bringing the American Empire
To its knees
And the Resistance began to recapture
City by city
The counter to the phrase
"Who is John Galt?"
Used in the reeducation camps
Until Ayn Rand
Was as forbidden in America
As Wagner in Israel
And then spray painted on walls
And on tshirts
And written in the sky
Was the question over and over
"Who is Erich Ludendorff?"
The book is still on track. Video update here.. 500 words a day for 90 days isnt nanowrimo spectacle but its a lot more sustainable.
So. In case I havent mentioned it before, I'm the Anti-Poe. While occasionally I do write and take inspiration from negative emotions such as despair, as a general rule, I need stability, hope, and having my needs met before I can produce art. Frankly, I had imposter syndrome for a long time because I didnt have the need to spout out words before my basic needs of sanity and survival. But I am an artist, and I am very creative and with help (and a lot of editing help) I am able to do art..and the fact is, I can do what a lot of artists cannot...consistently perform complex projects and finish them (or even start them) on a consistent basis. I'm no Steven King. I'm never going to be; but I am literally in mid flight for my ninth and tenth novel (we officially passed the 50K mark (my wife and I) on Fruitloop and Frankenstein for the Book of Heliotropic Fairy Tales....TEN. That's a lot and three more than my basic life goal of seven. I'm getting better and better at it (again with a lot of editing help)....and its not just a worthy accomplishment, I can double it and be as proud of my writing as I am of my gaming career.
So. Not Nanowrimo is fucking toast, and I consider the worst political or event (if you know what's going on) general disaster of my lifetime to be a good reason to disrupt that. But in life, when you are knocked down, you need to get up, dust yourself off and keep on trucking. So, my plan is (and we'll see if it works), is that I am going to write 500 words a day for 90 days to finish the estimated/outlined path for Armor of Stone. I'll resume writing my other projects including the Queen in Blue and Grenademan vs the Lich slowly, and when done with Armor of Stone start researching and outlining Whispers of Water (which so far in my mind is likely to end up being the coolest of the three.)
Also call out to my friend Bernard Setaro Clark for helping me research a rather cool action sequence for one of my projects in the Queen in Blue. I really look forward to releasing this thing and am about half way done. I'm not publishing anything until that chapbook is done and will take all the time it takes until it is 110% right.
