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Monday, May 26, 2025

WE WATCHED WHITE LOTUS HAPPILY DURING THE FALL OF AMERICA

by Hilary King
 
      After Ilya Kaminsky and Mike White




And when they deported immigrants, we 

protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
 
enough. I was
watching Season 3, around my couch America
 
was falling: amendment by amendment by amendment.
 
I took a spritz outside and watched the next episode.
 
In the endless month
of a monstrous reign in the house of distraction
 
in the channel of distraction in the podcast of distraction in the For You page of distraction,
our great country of distraction, we (save us)
 
needed to know who died.


Hilary King is a poet now living in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Her book Stitched on Me was published by Riot in Your Throat Press in 2024. She loves hiking, travel, and White Lotus.