Solipsism as Maternal Instinct

So, I made a video recording of this poem because Fence asked its contributors to send in either a sound file or a video for their website. I got Craig and Eze out of the house today to make it but ALAS…the dogs! There’s no way to shut them up. Also, I don’t know how to make good quality videos. I guess if I spent an hour trying to figure it out, then I could figure it out but it’s my day off and I don’t feel like figuring out how to make high-quality videos of myself reading poems with barking dogs in the background. Here is the video:  Solipsism As Maternal Instinct.

Two things this week that made me crazy. The first one: this terrible and embarrassing Nightline “report” on the Foxconn factories in China. It is so difficult to know where to begin talking about this. The bottom line for me is that this whole report was a way to make white people feel good about buying iCrap. The worst part of the report is that the “reporters” go to the villages where the young workers come from and suggest that the conditions from whence they came are worse than those in the Foxconn factories. Yeah right. This was a disgrace to watch. In addition to that, another report from NPR was equally upsetting: poor people who live in apartments whose apartments buildings have been taken over by banks due to foreclosure and how these banks do nothing to manage the properties so these people are living in dwellings unfit for animals. The cities themselves are having a difficult time contacting the banks much less holding them accountable for their greediness and neglect. Then they had the nerve to interview some representative from a coalition of banks who basically responds by saying that banks are not “property management companies.”