My Jandek Plague Journal: 5/26/20 "No Mind Was a Good Mind: Part Three"

"There's no way to go back/The innocence is lost/The king took a vacation/Left all the subjects to their own." This is the third time I've written about a song from this album and those older posts remind me of what's already been forgotten: the administration withholding aid from insufficiently fawning governors. It's a threat he returned to as some states sent out applications for mail-in ballots. Again, the degree to which you're allowed to live tracks with your degree of fealty: only the righteous shall receive salvation. So all states are open to some degree, those that want continued economic aid will fudge their numbers, and we'll hear how not crossing 100,000 deaths over Memorial Day Weekend is evidence of success. Instead we'll cross 100,000 this week. The President went golfing. It's not like there was something important going on. -5/26/20. "No Mind Was a Good Mind: Part Three" from London Tuesday (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)