**CW: Mentions of Suicide**

by M.L. Woldman, Late Capitalism Corespondent

1/
It took some time
to exit the Vampires’ Castle
and it haunted 
like unread mentions
like knowledge of dogpiles
crushing those not sufficiently woke
like bad faith…


2/
Lately I draw flies everywhere I go.
It’s a problem.
Right now I’m at a coffee shop 
in Austin, TX.
I overdrafted to get this coffee
and I feel like rotted meat.
Last night I couldn’t sleep
so I read your K-Punk anthology
until I could no longer understand words
and I am convinced we share a sickness.


3/
Today we are hauntologically tarnished
–defined by our lacking
but bolstered by our ideological rectitude.
fite makes right
and in the 2 years since your death
Liberal Twitter went Russia-insane
and Facebook is even worse in every regard.
Internet utopians cry themselves to sleep every night.


4/
whatever made you do it…
vampires
voices
the interminable despair of living
it was obviously something
too heinous to bear
and I’m glad you don’t have to bear it anymore.

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Inspiration: Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), known for his blog called “K-Punk”, was a British writer, critic, cultural theorist, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.

Fisher published several books, including the unexpected success Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), and contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. He died in January 2017, shortly before the publication of The Weird and the Eerie (2017).