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The world is a BBQ, and we are but its death sausages.

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We're all burning. Whomever the market cannot bear: the farmers, the craftspeople, the non-mechanical unemployed sentient apes, the students hungry for useless knowledge advertised as social advantage, the old, the poor, the useless armies of overstock, stalking in the stockyards, the way-stations, packed into cattle cars, or just burn them where they stand, why bother shipping them, with all that paperwork?

In a red hot Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen considers the world on fire - our sausages, our ground floor dwellings, our ESL teachers, our glass, our water, our men, our fish, our trash, our knowledge, our prisoners, our Indian subcontinent - and with his dying, crispy breath, gives some pretty good advice about steaming your sausages first.

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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