My Jandek Plague Journal: 4/12/20 "Lost Cause"

"Everyone’s gone to the lost cause/Take off my shoes to the lost cause/Quit eatin’ food for the lost cause/Take it all back to the lost cause/Forget your life to the lost cause." What, given enough time, will not seem normal? I've been listening to Jandek about an hour or so every day for three weeks and what initially seemed abrasive and dissonant evolved into making me feel nauseous and finally graduated into sounding like music. This is just what music is to me now, nothing strange or notable about any of it. The US has passed 20,000 coronavirus deaths, more than anywhere else in the world. The administration is withholding equipment from states with governors of the opposing party. The opposing party is refusing to criticize the failed pandemic response of the administration. The Post Office is going to shut down. All of this is accepted. This is the new normal. Not because there's no one to oppose it, but because the people standing against it are facing more opposition than the people perpetrating it. -4/12/20. "Lost Cause" from Foreign Keys (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)