My Jandek Plague Journal: 5/1/20 "One Last Chance"

"It crept and I saw it all along the way/It came on bit by bit/And I knew it all along/The only difference is now/It’s gone too far." When did we stop talking about the virus, about ventilators and PPE and flattening the curve? The paid protesters of the "reopen" movement escalated things today by staging an armed takeover of the Michigan statehouse. When Black people did that in California, Reagan banned open carry with the support of the NRA. Today, the white protesters didn't even face pushback from the gathered police (who, with what we know of white supremacy, were presumably coordinating with the protesters). Meanwhile, at the other protests around the country funded and organized by the administration's factotums, people held up signs reading, "Work is Freedom." The phrase has popped up at several locations meaning it was suggested from the top. In the original German, it's "Arbeit Macht Frei," from the gates of Auschwitz. -5/1/20. "One Last Chance" from This Narrow Road (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)