Thursday, May 18
UPON LEARNING THAT SOME KOREAN WAR REFUGEES USED PARTIALLY-DETONATED NAPALM CANISTERS AS COOKING FUEL How did we get here? you'll think, kneeling with your neighbors in the parking lot as the para-police confiscate your coffee. How did it get to this? everyone will say, walking north on the interstate as the city's swarmed in orange, swallowed in smoke. How did this happen, though it'll be the wrong question, as they tear open your packages, escort you to a room where white-knuckled soldiers wait. Listen: I have a bad imagination. Dystopia is the word for what's already happened so many times, it's the reason ______'s so cheap. No such thing as an undetonated hell; the pilot light clicks, and I eat. (Franny Choi)