I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

And this is the slowdown. down. I do not read the Wall Street Journal. I do not track unemployment rates nor the affordability of houses. I simply look out my

window and notice the signs that we are struggling as a society. I know there is no easy

solution to economic inequality. I do wish that we channel greater energy into

figuring out the wealth gap, how to provide sustainable wages to working people.

One of the corrupting aspects of our economic system is that it forces us to accept conditions that reduce people and nature.

Today's poem provocatively mounds vocabularies to dramatize the degrading effects of economies that harm real human beings.

The poem urges us to notice the complicity of language.

The devouring economy of nature by Daniel Borzutski. The Mark, the skin, the skin, the face, the skin, the bone, the skin, the the fun collapsing. Too much liquid on the roof. Too much debt in the face. Too many bodies

fleeing themselves. The bodies kept stepping out of their own genetic mutations, kept forming new bodies.

And when we tried to verify what the old bodies meant to the new bodies, we came to understand that the reason for the boiling heart

was that the storm was trying to make its way out of the tax shelter.

The raging hurricane was stuck in the colony's backwater. The earth could not absorb. The

colonial heat, the colonial wave, the crypto pump and dump, the rust, the char, the madness, the corpses name carved

into its skeleton, the photo they found in the corpse's pocket, the face they found in its pocket,

the corpse they found in the bank. It was slick with oil. It was stuck in the ceremony of bureaucracy, in the testimony of

bureaucracy, in the testimony of one bank head saying to another bank

head, no, the people should not have what we have. The people, if they are

lucky, should have what other people in their tax bracket have. Perhaps they can ascend a bit. Perhaps they can slide from side to side.

There are bears waiting to mop up the remains of the pump and dump. There are compliance officers waiting for the

Commission to declare insufficient coverage in the book, the home, the price, the food, the pipe, the blood, the beading, the compliance officers filter

the bodies into a parallel superstructure into a parallel pedagogy, the identity of the stuck body

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