My Jandek Plague Journal: 3/27/20 "No Mind Was a Good Mind Part Four"

"I'm a cancer and I eat healthy tissue/as I advance my disease all around/I can't help but be malignant." Fascism creeps ever onward. The US now has more coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world and the administration is halting the emergency production of ventilators. They're publicly saying that governors who aren't friendly to them will be denied aid. Meanwhile apparatchiks are saying the disease will only affect blue states and so shouldn't be taken so seriously. Fascism creates the crisis that it then needs to respond to as white supremacy consistently narrows the definition of whiteness and who is worthy of salvation. First this was an Asian problem that didn't need to be taken seriously, then Italian, then you have to be willing to die for the market, and now it's only a threat to political opponents. Dying to the disease is failing the leader, a sign of a lack of faith, which means you always deserved to die. True believers won't get checked, they'll just keep spreading the faith. -3/27/20. "No Mind Was a Good Mind Part Four" from London Tuesday (lyrics) (one week later)