My Jandek Plague Journal: 6/22/20 "The Day of Dread"

"Assemble yourself, dear/Friend. Then watch it come apart. It/Only takes an hour, the day of the dread/Comes upon you. Falter not. Be strong./You don't know anything yet." Columbus police maced a double amputee then stole his legs, leaving him to drag himself to the medics. Protesters had to jump the cops to steal the legs back, and they did. Through a wall of mace, the protesters overpowered the cops and got the legs back. But what a monstrous moment. Stealing someone's legs. You have to decide to do that. On top of the decision of macing someone who is missing parts of their body, to make the further decision to hold them down and disconnect their limbs. And all the cops went along with it. They followed the order to remove someone's legs and then attacked people who tried to return them. This is a level of depravity and sadism that can neither be negotiated with nor endured. It's going to get worse, but the very fact that it's going to get worse is why the protests can't stop. -6/22/20. "The Day of Dread" from London Residency (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)