My Jandek Plague Journal: 6/3/20 "The Lesson"

"I married control/How else to keep from sleeping in the fields and streets/When the shock and despair returns as it does/I watch it and use it and learn from it." I'm seeing articles in the Korean press about the police riots in the US and they're doing the propaganda work of shifting the narrative: are protesters just ignoring COVID (cities are shutting down testing centers to punish protesters), why are Korean-owned businesses being attacked (because cops won't provide protection in minority neighborhoods), how does looting protest racism (when these businesses called cops who kill black people to arrest black people)? It's not complicity nor are people lamenting the destruction of their livelihoods wrong to lament that, it's indicative of how ingrained white supremacy is even in non-whites. Black people are being murdered, and the reaction is, "how dare they make that my problem." -6/3/20. "The Lesson" from Bristol Wednesday (lyrics) (one week earlier) (one week later)