2010 :: Issue 6/Spring :: Micro Essays

The Fall and Rise of Nobody’s America

Someone Leaves Home 3209 Tindalo Maynila Pilipinass	Thou Shalt Not Be poor Not sÄs’É™r, sÄz’É™r Wear tight shorts or pink shirts		And Evil Nobody knows except Jesus H cries AD/BC (After desire/Before coming)
Addiction		To know America, know its addictions.
Advertising		How can I want something until I see somebody else wanting it?
American Dream		Let sleeping underdogs lie.
American Food		Want a little salt with your sugar?
American Tragedy		Boys with guns.
Art		SALE! SOUL! SALE!
Art of Conversation		Kill your television? Last nail in the coffin.
Average American Household		2.86 TVs.
Arriving A F T E R W A R D S
Bleach		The myth of whiteness.
Bliss		Because I don’t want to care, I don’t want to know.
Booze		Rite of passage.
Boredom		Nothing is more terrifying. (The most urgent ethical question—what are we going to do next?)
Buy		You are what you.
Betweening ANONYMOUS BECOMES BIOGRAPHYLESS
Capitalism		Moneytheism.
Cars		I drive, therefore I am.
Chill Pill		Panacea.
Christmas		National school of commodity fetishism.
Church		Jesus and Johnnie Walker on every street corner.
Church		Refuge from the bewilderments of the modern world.
Collective Forgetting		In an ideal world, the people would have no memory.
Comics		Indigenous literature.
Cops		The thin blurry line between black and white.
Counterculture (See Civil Disobedience.)		I prefer not to.
Credit		No limits.
Consumption / Consummation ANXIOUS BEWILDERED BEWITCHED CLUTCHING COLORLESS CAGES