People who don’t listen to music park their cars in front of
fire hydrants. People who don’t listen to music develop repetitive stress disorders
such as Dyspeptic Political Identity. People who don’t listen to music lament
the idle swells of “steely gray clouds” dimming the north-northwest. They
wander through the lobby in search of the lobby. They perch like slumbering
owls, one-legged, on marble staircases. They marvel at the defunct telephone
booth, the handset dangling off the hook, the dial-tone expired. People who don’t
listen to music struggle at the vending machine, their currency upside down,
their intended treat manacled by the tight coil of the apparatus. People who
don’t listen to music suck imported, boutique plum pits. People who don’t listen
to music scoff at the buttered onion! They attend registration drives in
circular parks but withdraw after discovering that they won’t receive a gift,
such as a four-slice toaster or a festive doilies four-pack. They gnaw on the
principles of other generations even as the principles of other generations
gnaw on them, “gnaw, man”, says a jokester from a jokester generation, but the
wordplay carouses briefly, glancing off a plate-glass window. They monitor their
carotid arteries during periods of inactivity, often with concerning results,
such as mule-kick pulses or blender-on-pulse, pulses. People who don’t listen
to music listen to people who don’t listen to music. They clasp their hands
like “hurrahs”, only they won’t raise these “hurrahs” over their heads, and
their hands, unclasping, approximate the weary countries of sequestration.
complaint week 2015
editorial schedule:
October 26: The Democrat Machine
October 27: Artists and Writers Who Say “My Work”
October 28: GWU Fires Adjunct Creative Writing Faculty
October 29: Washington, D.C. Manchester City Bros
October 30: People Who Don't Listen to Music
