Terror of Nod

waking up to tweets from

Neil Gaiman

Amanda Palmer

John Hodgman

Peter Sagal

Patton Oswalt

about the horrors in New York

peaceful protestors ousted and beaten

by the NYPD hammer

smashed by the cruel tide of tyranny

onward, soldier

invisible in the closed airspace

invisible in the dark night

they're afraid of them

I'm afraid of them

five thousand

Bradburys

Palahniuks

Plaths

Joyces

Kennedys

Dickenses

Vonneguts

Shakespeares

Orwells

meet the monstrous lick of flames

then

on the way to class

a trio of hollow husks of metal

cars that were burned? an accident? 

cars that were bombed? an attack? 

has the wave reached this safe shore of intellectuals?

my favorite and trashed dystopians are coming alive

all at once

all at night

all while I was asleep