Blog — Kevin Chesser

12/02/24

Tomorrow I travel to the U.K. for my first ever trip across the ocean. Recent communique from the Virgin Airlines higher-ups indicates that the plane I will be traveling on is like “an angel cast in metal”, and “troubling in how closely it resembles paradise”. I asked them to show me. They said they couldn’t show me. I asked them why they couldn’t show me. “You’ll see soon enough,” they said. I asked if this means anything to them: Mama’s old pajamas and your papa’s mustache, falling out the window sill, frolic in the grass. They said no. They are lying. “Well it means something to me,” I said.

09/27/24

Crafting echoes by firelight that’s pretty mid. Darkness bleeding in, darkness winning the race. Words like saturnine, obsidian, vacuum. Sodium dirt. Crop circles seen from beneath. Account balance written in runes. Useless stuff. Blog posting. America continues its push to be remembered as the most destructive force in modern history. But boy we know how to line up a spectacle. Look. It didn’t rain all summer, now it is.