Mastodawn

These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

#ExperimentalPoetry #poem #poetry #PoetryCollection #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity #Australia #UnitedStates #coronavirus #COVID19 #pandemic #DonaldJTrump #ScottMorrison #GladysBerejiklian #InjectingDisinfectant #DisasterCapitalists #TravelBubble #Hairdressers #FluBro #Covidiots #WobbleRoom #Coronasplaining #ArmchairVirologists #Ventilators #HardLockdown #ZoonoticDiseases #UnderTheDoona #tears #covfefe

#Gaza now has 42 tonnes of rubble, with 90% of homes destroyed!

The UN estimates it will take a decade to clear away all the rubble in #Gaza and cost up to $700 million in U.S. dollars.

SOURCE: #AlJazeera

just an opinion, but I'm worried about #DisasterCapitalists, grifters and all-around scummy corporate opportunists injecting themselves into the situation, pretending to 'help' (when they only mean helping themselves € ￡￥$)

#disastercapitalism #corporategreed #FreePalestineNOW🇵🇸

#housing #globalhousingcrisis

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George Baily Feb 4, 2024

>At its essence, a shock is the gap that opens up between event and existing narratives to explain the event. Being creatures of narrative, humans tend to be very uncomfortable with meaning vacuums-- which is why those opportunistic players, the people I have termed #DisasterCapitalists, have been able to rush into the gap with their preexisting wish lists and simplistic stories of good and evil.

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@ NovaNaturalist🇨🇦🇩🇰🇬🇱🇵🇦🇲🇽🇱🇸🇳🇫🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE Oct 10, 2023

@ExtinctionR when you consider this fact, alongside the fact that the world's biggest investment banks are still investing in fossil fuels, you realise that capitalists are actually completely incompetent, they just have control of decision making.

#ClimateChange #decarbonize #DisasterCapitalists

WildKippers Mar 30, 2023

The rancid #Tories are #DisasterCapitalists in every sense - Government defies experts with huge gamble on carbon capture https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/government-gambles-on-carbon-capture-and-storage-tech-despite-scientists-doubts

UK government gambles on carbon capture and storage tech despite scientists’ doubts

Controversial technology is at centre of ‘powering up Britain’ strategy, but critics argue it has ‘little merit’ and ‘delays real cuts in emissions’

The Guardian