At the moment tho' this set up
works for me, being paid to sit and write &

smoke, thumbing thru Adorno like New Idea
on a cold working day in Ballarat, where

adult unemployment is 22% & all your grand
schemata of intricate cause and effect

work out like this: take a muscle car &
wire its accelerator to the floor, take out

the brakes, the gears the steering wheel
& let it rip.

from 'Ode to Karl Marx' by john forbes