(FYI: The following is the first installment of Realm of Contagious Stupidity, an ongoing series of contemporary, satirical kyōka examining modern culture and politics.
Realm of Contagious Stupidity, I
In response to Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "Against stupidity we are defenseless."
at the gallery
a plane mirror with a sign:
the DUMBEST --
no one stands before it
except a Trump lookalike
FYI: The Guardian, Oct. 2 2025: A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might there be a way out?)
I was told
to hide all the feelings
once grown --
carrying this silver casket
I shed tears for her, and me
FYI: This could be read as a sequel to my tanka below:
with each sob
his body convulses …
in the hospital
for the first time
I embrace a man
Ribbons, 7:4, Winter 2011
Added:
my brain humming
with scraps of Sappho
while Eros stirs ...
"I'll be a poet," I confess
to my river reflection
Added: This Brave New World, CXXVIII
another lineup
round the block near a foodbank
wall-mounted TV
blasting "sunlight on demand"
"orbiting data centers"
Reflect Orbital's giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission, or FCC,
In February, SpaceX filed with the FCC for one million more satellites, for “AI data centers.”
Added:
dust motes
in slanted moonlight—
I settle
into what remains
after bankruptcy
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