Self-Pity Party

Bring chips, bring dips

Author

Dorothy
April 05, 2024

SELF-PITY PARTY / GIRL: Our politics are the politics of self-pity CAT: Doggerel / GIRL: People with power who think they’ve been unjustly treated by the powerless CAT: So MUCH doggerel / GIRL: Our art is the art of self-pity CAT: We spent all our money / GIRL: Juvenile fantasies of acquiring power and exacting revenge CAT: Building doggerel machines / GIRL: (holding skull) The earth is too much to mourn - so we turn inward CAT: I’m not a doggerel person - I’m more into - catastrophes / GIRL: How big our world is - and how small our universe / GIRL: Alas poor York SKULL: Alas poor me!