This is where you can write your introduction.

Challenge accepted.

History is now. Welcome to History, Now! Now, we’re gonna go over some history.

If you’ve been here before, you might know that this is my third book. If not, you might still know this. If you just picked this up, then good on ya. I have at least two others.

History is then though, right? Like history is what happened before, no? No. History is that which happens. History is the part of life that gets codified, that people remember. And a lot has been happening recently. I read about the weird lives of people who lived a while ago and today, so I thought that I could be an expert too. Think of this book as an anthropological text.

I tried to examine the many facets of the white, patriarchal cabal that has controlled the world for the past 600 years (5,000 according to them). See Caroligian and think of an insurance claims adjuster getting drunk and mistaking you for their friend. Read Franz’s Glance at a Danzig France and imagine Robespierre trying to explain how humanity could be gods that were create by Gods to a crowd of revolutionary Frenchpeople who had renamed the months after crafts and professions. Hear Millenial complain about everything, but accept no responsibility.

I also wrote a couple of ekphrastic pieces. I started working in an art museum at the same time that I started writing the poetry that came together to make this book. Voices Rule the Night is about a mixed media piece that really evokes the sensation of supranatural contact, while Geoffrey examines the incongruity of making a hyper-realistic sculpture of an animal without genitals. Ekphrastic poetry is poetry that is about other art. I rarely trust you, dear reader.

I wonder what you expect from an introduction. Here. I’ll give you space to tell me.

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I’ve read the rubrics and clickbait listicles. I feel like this is pretty indicative of what you’re gonna get.