Sticker Booklet

Over the month of February I found myself forgetting the five steps in my apocalypse-resistance plan¹. It’s a good plan, or at least it was during the period from October-December when I hopefully suspected the cacophony of news headlines would sing their song and then reduce back to garbled clucking. My hope was optimistic and ill informed. Now, I feel like there are screaming roosters around every corner. Worse yet, sometimes they break from predictable pro-war and bureaucratic anthems to wetly hum about bird-flu², garbage imperialism³, and God. These side bars are all the more terrifying because they are quiet and legible, even to me. The writing-on-the-wall is not only composed of Trump’s AI Gaza takeover video⁴ — It’s made up of the digital price labels in Walmart and the cordial police-led handshakes between homeland security and local business owners⁵. I need a new plan. I need a new resistance for my kitchen door. I need my grandparents knees to to take old steps in. I’ll feed grandmother’s chickens and remember the earth, touch grass. If I eat my cellphone and nobody is watching, will it even make a sound?

1. Resist Urgency, Stay Informed, Become Educated, Maintain an Outlet, Care for Community ↩︎
2. https://ithacavoice.org/2025/02/avian-influenza-found-in-dead-birds-across-the-finger-lakes-including-tompkins-county/ ↩︎
3. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/world/asia/india-air-quality-trash.html ↩︎
4. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGhfpgHsOg6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link ↩︎
5. 476 Exchange St, Geneva, NY 14456, April, 2025 ↩︎