Cri de Coeur's State of the Nation Address, October 3rd, 2026

There's something of a quiet rebirth of 
the Counter-Culture, lately, these days, 
to my lefthanded brain: Guys with- and 
without girlfriends doing satire about 
daily life... Australia seems to have some 
kind of wild, thundering Punk & Metal scene...
Eminem is obviously still the Martin Luther King, Jr. 
of Hip-Hop...and comedians from, well, any-
where from New York to the dreary 
Midwest, and onto the debaucherously holy 
& unholy Western States, I think, 
have a pretty healthy, if unspoken, fear 
of becoming some fuckhead conformist 
of a wage-slave. (In my honest opinion.) 

I remember when Obama was president (I 
didn't vote for him; nor have I ever 
voted for a Republican) I remember how 
there were some hungry conversations peeking 
from certain corners of the internet 
about a Post-Racial America. 
ho ho ho, Bubba: Imagine a conversation 
about Critical Race Theory 
 with 
President Donald Trump. 
Or Jungian Psychology. 
Or living smart & pretty with 
less than $30,000 a year.
Or much of anything at all, 
for that matter. 

If anyone asks, I'm pacing myself 
on beer & weed (the occasional 
sip on some E&J (red), of course 
sometimes big enough to warrant 
a paperbag but even those tiny bottles 
can change my world in an instant) 
sometimes missing old friends, 
sometimes saying hello to them, 

and perhaps picking-up 
empty can and scrap metal, 
because who's gonna pay 
me 
to unload boxes 
and fold 
shirts? 

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