The Department of Spiritual Inefficiency

Jef Bourgeau, Swimming Underwater

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Dear Elon

From the Department of Spiritual Inefficiency

…If the kingdom of heaven is the eye

of a needle, Elon, you are a quintuple-

humped camel trampling it under the dirt.

But I live for possibility. If you asked,

I would stretch you to fit through

that gleaming millimeter like a spaghettified traveler

rocketing too close to a quasar.

Yes, I would turn you into a noodle of repentance

with hands too floppy to destroy or salute —

just a string of spirit stretching and slipping

deeper into my disastrous pull, a love

that is anything but efficient.

~ Tania Runyan (fragment)

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The US government is not currently acting in the interest of its traditional nation-state identity; rather, it has been co-opted by a powerful court of techno-lords, who are leveraging what’s left of the state apparatus to advance their own transnational corporate interests by diminishing or even eliminating the power of governments to regulate them.