Bedtime Stories for the End of the World

Bedtime Stories for the End of the World! is a chapbook released in 2014 from Bloof Books; released as a PDF in March 2016. Excerpt: The children were eating the bushes outside of their former houses that had been crushed by The Bank of America. There was a boy in a bush singing an improvised song about a bulldozer that obliterates the bureaucratic centers of the earth. Do you remember cheese, he sang to his friend. Te acuerdas de la piña? Do you remember ferries, he sang to his friend. Te acuerdas de los patos? Do you remember school bells and cowards and the boys who would come to our yard to eat the scraps of food we threw to them before the city started to blaze? Bienvenidos a CVS. Si cuenta con tu Extra Care Card please escanea it now. There really wasn't money anymore or at least there wasn't money for us. The man with the camera kissed me and took photographs of the blood that dripped from my fingers. Everyone knew he was CIA. He knew for example that the blood that dripped from my face tasted like the blood of the workers assassinated by the Fatherland. Then I found a dying shack and I met a man with a chain and he was snoring and talking in his sleep and he smelled like pee and complained he had lost his pension when they privatized the city in the dying days of the rotten carcass economy. Looking after the world is a shitty job if you're really not a people person. — from "In the Blazing Cities of Your Rotten Carcass Mouth"