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Daily writing prompt
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

no longer trust humans. They showed they were unable to take even basic precautions to protect themselves and others. It has filled me with contempt for humans. I already had plenty of it, now I am double plus good in the contempt department.

I

Daily writing prompt
What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?

don’t believe in those. Time is an illusion. I have on or off setting. The first hour was in 1964. None of these other hours are first. They are not numbered. One of them will be last.

Each

Daily writing prompt
Which aspects do you think makes a person unique?

of us has a unique genetic being that then experiences life in a unique path. One meets specific unique individuals who help us shape who we become. Specific moments unique to us stay with us. If we develop the habit of writing or drawing or playing music or some other means of expression it is one unique person doing that. Persisting as a unique person as a projection. Today one is told to let Ai “help” one to create. But Ai is using the IP of countless unique people who have posted their IP on the internet, a thing that should have been free, should have helped us get past the habits of subjecting ourselves to states that somehow pretend that genocide of the other is not a war crime.

Yes, I was in the shit.

Daily writing prompt
If you could have something named after you, what would it be?

What is ( ) local?

Is it a gang?

Does local even exist anymore?

( ) was local. ( ) was native, a unicorn.

But, ( ) live in something like 16 cities, 3 countries.

What is the goal, then, of the label local?

A tribe, that refuses to move?

One tied to just the one place for all of time?

( ) have lost sight of the goal here, refusal to be viewed as a tourist?

Disdain for tourism? Tribe?

The view of local things. Buying local things.

The rest (the others) are ( ) visiting/spectators.

Locals imagine if “the shit goes down”, we/they are in the shit together.

We fight in the wars together.

Resume is a list of them, the local wars.

Battle of the place name here.

Stick it on my car.

Read it.

“Yes, I was in the shit.”

postscript: I thought of something I want, The West Coast. It can still be labeled the West Coast, but everyone needs to understand that I own it. dc