The following is a 750 word passage written as an exercise. The exercise is an early morning writing session where the pen doesn't stop until I reach 3 pages. 'Morning pages', as they are called, are a stream of immediate consciousness. I wrote these words at 6am and read them 14 hours later at literary institution and local watering hole KGB Bar in East Village. Manhattan, NYC: Revolution is a concept that was once just floating. It was radical. It was a moment and then quiet and then came back into public consciousness. Those who were always aware were always on the the wave of revolution but those weren’t now seem to be ripples coming into the total collapse of the American empire we are now witnessing. i am writing these morning pages thinking about the fact that Elon Musk has some how become our president. That the richest person in the world can just buy a government. Buy a president. I guess its always sort of been like that but never so blatant and unapologetic. I m...