My Jandek Plague Journal: 4/21/20 "Yellow Pages"

"Beast got me walking straight/Straight to the stockyard gate/I ain’t about to die/But you can have your way." How much is compliance bred into the white American psyche? I've been struck for a long time that despite its founding myth being the overthrow of a king, the American people are desperate to be ruled, eager to take whatever proclamation comes from their leaders as divine truth. The governor of Georgia, who was too slow to enforce lockdown orders and said he didn't know asymptomatic people could spread the disease, is talking about reopening the state. Not only will that mean people die, it'll mean mostly black and city-dwelling people will die. These people don't tend to vote for Republicans so really it's unfair to call them people at all. If they were people, if they were loyal Americans, they'd be willing to face this disease just to show those traitors that the death toll won't be that bad. -4/21/20. "Yellow Pages" from One Foot in the North (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)