Iron Lung Eternity

The rabies and tetanus shots are vaccines yet no one seems to have an issue with getting them. Maybe cause there are less than ten known survivors of rabies once symptoms set in. Of those only one didn’t suffer from permanent & severe physical and neurological damage. There is no cure & treatment is limited to experimental drug cocktails and symptom management.

There are exponentially more anti-vaxxers than cases of rabies or tetanus. I understand their hypocrisy, its probably one of the most terrifying diseases in the world but it begs the question is the GENERIC CONSPIRACY THEORY worse than a drawn out death that eats holes in your brain in a month? How about the risk of sepsis from intubation? Or a perforated esophagus? Pulmonary oedema? Necrosis in the extremities?

I’ll put up with the possibility of GENERIC CONSPIRACY if a single shot will save me or anyone I care about from illness or death. Like a seatbelt or a motorcycle helmet. I suspect this will go the way of AIDs, anyone that knowingly spreads the virus or makes no steps to ascertain whether or not they may be infected (ignoring symptoms) might end up charged with manslaughter, even murder. Its easy enough to contact trace. Why are people taking this any less seriously than AIDs? This spreads & kills faster.

I don’t care much about healthy living & I hate the masks but I do it out of respect for others without complaining, cause its nothing. My friend welds all day wearing a respirator as well as welding mask. You can handle a bit of cloth. My grandfather started full time work at 8. He survived the 1918 pandemic at age as did my great grandparents, one of whom witnessed the first poison gas attack in Ypres & died for Canada.

These right-wing, traitorous pseudo-fascists dare claim to fight for our freedoms while gagging the REAL INDIE press, free speech & harassment. The Canadian alt-right is stitched together with delusions, almost comical sans the racist/classist/sexist undertones.

People have pointed out Black supporters of the Northern Right as evidence they aren’t a hate group. There are three photographed Canada-wide. They’re welcomed with open arms by a greasy fellow dressed like Cyrus from Trailerpark Boys. He’s posed next to a lone black man, who is welcome only for PR reasons. The entrance questions to some of these home-grown USA colonist cults sound like either suicide bomber recruitment flyers a scam, or both. Heavily opposed to socialism in theory, most, if not all have made use of one of the nation’s many programs from schools to roads, hospitals, cops & fire-fighters. They don’t understand this. They fight their own interests.

Their official platform is a vague shadow of the ex US whitehouse jockey. I’ve been called names, threatened & silenced all for asking questions. They must condemn me or accept their fallibility. This was fun but I have no more to say. The National Director uses military terms such as “my men” though they mostly seem to be low income ex conservative voters. Some have tagged on legalizing unregulated automatic rifles to the group’s causes, pandering like a chameleon stuck in a red light district.

Facebook finally flagged them as a hate group, now they’ve splintered without facebook or computer skills. As the province locks down they’ll be claiming the coup is coming. There are no communists. In a single day 45 lost his only chance at another term and they lost their growing media platform. They’ve been crippled since. They expected the yank wankers to come up and annex us for Mar A Lago and the natural director wanted to take the prime minister’s desk & replace our flag with that stupid symbol. I’ve no doubt he sees himself as a valiant knight but he lies with every word he speaks.

Trudeau’s father invoked the War Measures Act in Quebec against the FLQ. Invoking the act was discussed but dismissed for now. The PM can invoke the act during war or national crises and the moment he does no more habeas corpus or rights against entrapment or illegal search and seizure. If the government wants to surveil you then you will be. They have funds above and beyond. So the government did not fake the pandemic because it has cost the economy billions, a pandemic fell into Trudeau’s lap, if he wanted he could extend his power through the entire pandemic and use the Act to legally muzzle his opponents, who proudly threaten and insult him daily. Guy aint great but he’s the best since Chretien, plus legal weed is really hard to beat. Unless he made provincial narcotic stores, other than the liquor store.

2600 new cases a day in Canada. As long as these anti-vax, Alex Jone’s felching delusion en masse anti mask will thrive too. Vaccines only work if everyone healthy is vaccinated. If some refuse then this will be drawn out, much like their deaths by disease. Hospitals about to pass capacity in the ICU, for safety reasons the unvaccinated can’t get medical or dental care or even enter those buildings. The mingling alt-right, anti-intellectual jackals will be spreading every contagious disease able to live in a Toronto subway car. Hugs & hundreds.

The right is still united, they have simple goals and beliefs, they are tools of hate. No precision, no class war criminals. The left has been torn into factions by BLM, TERFS and identity politics. It used to bother me getting misgendered but I am androgynous and comfortable with myself, the facial hair helps me look more “Boyish.” Democratic socialism (Tommy Douglas Style) The life of a poet, libertine, junky, freak. Ever since certain subcultures became mainstream they stepped out of the closet & into a light & a branded lifestyle. The fun of pride was that anyone used to be accepted, even cutters like me. Now it too has been eaten by the capitalist Leviathan.

The only hope of slowing the spread of this apocalyptic fire is to contain it united. Pronouns and identity politics must come second. Attacking the ignorant will only Harden them against your next assault. There will come a time for that yet. When real fascism rears its head it must face a united front, otherwise everything my, maybe your grandparents fought for will go to waste.

-Jaques Blaruh

Sunset West

Where the river caressed the trees

And flowed bright through the valley at sunrise.

Where insect choirs greeted the light

With symphonies of inspired improvisations.

Where starlight could walk through the day fearless

And wander deep into the infinite, intimate night.

Where the ever-hungry city carved scars through the fields and forests,

Gouged deep watery wounds in the heart of the valley.

Where they conjured up mortar and bricks and chain link fences,

To swaddle the bloody afterbirth of ugly electric industry.

Bridges are collapsing.

Concrete plans about to break the bent back of once-beautiful waste-landscapes.

Silver Creek runs dark brown,

Dragging its ragged body over soiled syringes & shards of broken beer bottles.

The Heart of the Forest has been shot up with tarps, trash, tent poles,

And exploding hot shrapnel pieces 

Of children’s once innocent little minds,

Who left dancing & dodging with psilocybin spirits,

Split into thousands of possibilities.

Ducking behind dark trees, regretful vines, invented extra personalities.

Suburbia like a prison wall around the valley.

Is that picket fence or barbed wire?

Cruel camouflage for white-collar work camps.

Bright lights leering down into the forests

Like angry S.S. men, blinking and yawning,

 Chipping at the barricaded doors of lost souls in hiding.

Blinding searchlights, teargas and handguns.

Always seeking, always searching

For anything slightly out of place on the hospital streets,

Finding tiny specks of harmless dust,

Then rubbing the skin of the starving raw and bloody,

Pouring into the bathwater with steel wool and rusty razors.