ihumanitatis,
image by Daniel Y. Harris
Against Declinism
Welcome
to my working week, brain ablaze postdoc:
Specter
of spectral presumed tenure
Shortness
of breath group kinesthetics,
Volk
Sports Management Cybersecurity Tech --
Sonny
says, “Want it! You drive me like a cream dream Chevrolet…”
Post
Duke Post Ironic Oughts,
Son
of Jameson salaams “Neglected Blues”:
Du
bist mir immer willkommen.
Das
ist eine willkommene Gelegenheit.
Signaling
solidarity, Sonny slots
A
dialogue box into translucent panes, awakening
Volk
Tech glass corner officers.
Sonny
and me become a we who study
Techweens
as isolate phenomena.
We
purloin “problematized populism.”
We
nick institutional time, filching futures.
We
despair for Distinguished Civil Engineers.
We
clap because we have plenty of hands to spare.
We
are underemployed, but not among the lonely only.
They,
not Sonny and me, depreciate to one percent.
—Daniel
C. Morris
