The Mezunian

Die Positivität ist das Opium des Volkes, aber der Spott ist das Opium der Verrückten

Coming to Order (MIRA, ¿PUEDES HACER IRSE LAS PESADILLAS? ¿PUEDES ARRASTRAR LOS DEMONIOS DESDE EL DENTRO? SÁLVAME DE ESTA VIDA SIN PECADO)

O, please, give me your sour & sweet poisoned, juicy starburst dripping with the rich twist o’ cyanide-pill chalk, heart-spiking sugar sharks, thick aquariums o’ soft & safe booze to fill my villi stomach with revolting microbes, & causing my membrane to flap… Year-end songs— Flutters so much. Please rest, bloody heart. ..to kill ‘nother […]

Posted in Crazy, Deutsch, Española, Haiku, Senryu y amigos, Poetry

Hearth Factory Sonnet

Note: I was going to “celebrate” Marxmas by posting an article wherein I shit on Marxism & it’s stupid “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” bullshit, ’cause, as predicted, 2015 was a bad year, & that’s what you do on years without a warm future. But I’m sick to death o’ politics (& don’t have the time […]

Posted in Metered, Mezunian Sonnet, Poetry

Keynes’s Greatest Fan Offers Advice On How to Help the “Left”: Do Exactly As He Says ‘Cause He Says So

Lord Keynes is so fervent a follower o’ the “Post-Keynesian” cult that he literally named himself after Keynes—something I don’t e’en think Marxists or Misesians have e’er done; & when you look mo’ cultish than Marxists & Austrian-schoolers, you know you’re fucking something up. Anyway, he wrote his own list o’ principles for his Keynesian […]

Posted in No News Is Good News, Politics

Bellis

Dear Luigi, I know you’ve ne’er heard o’ me before, & that an absolute nobody like me shouldn’t waste your time with irrelevant talk when you still have so much important ghost-catching work to do, but I just wanted to tell you how much o’ a fan o’ you I am & that, whatever anyone […]

Posted in Short Stories

When that Ol’ Curmudgeon Mezun isn’t Ranting ‘Bout All Bananas Being “Socially-Necessary Labor Time,” He’s Babbling On ‘Bout the Good Ol’ Days o’ those there Pokémons

Though it seems both a lot o’ fans agree with me, I’ll admit that my preference for generation 2 probably stems from nostalgia, as ’twas the 1st Pokémon game I e’er played, when I was 9. I’ll admit that my preference for the original Game Boy Color versions o’er the DS versions, which fans seem […]

Posted in Video Games

The Socialist Paradox & the Law of Orwell (Also a Rant ‘Bout Milton Friedman in a Footnote)

Law: If you support economic democracy, you support economic totalitarianism. Proof: Supporting economic democracy means supporting socialism. Supporting socialism means supporting totalitarianism. The law is gotten through the transitive property. In mathematical notation, for the (nonexistent) economists in the audience: A = B B = !A Therefore, A = !A ‘Course, the real-world manifestation o’ […]

Posted in Politics

Peppermint Pink Sonnet

Accompanying music. Light that leads me through the blizzard, white in flakes, such snuggled blankets. Tangy sugar never withers, though this season never bakes it, only baked so long ago, you remind me o’ soft bread, warm tan crescents made o’ snow. Noses itch in strong, fresh scents. Red lights warn you: stop & breathe, […]

Posted in Metered, Mezunian Sonnet, Poetry