Poetry

ZOETROPICS

Around the protective bubble of your comfort a wind is picking up hooved mythologies. The bee rides a plastic flag. On the way out we notice a quarter vending machine full of bouncy little brains. Animals make terrible human impersonators. We’re always looking upward, imagining. A crystal cat laps up sunlight.

Journal

Local-Culture Power (4)

Local culture focus can:— make abundant and diverse creative arts with less energy and lower marketing, travel, and similar costs than national/global entertainment and media— establish a field of growing cultural economic activity that is not prone to disruption by automation, corporate consolidation, or AI— build more culture at “fractal scale” in similarly-unique local scenes vs. less culture via monolithic and pyramidic global-scale industry.