Review: Gothic Violence by Mike Ma

Spray and pray. Laws are on one side, poets on the other.

Mike Ma shoots from the hip. He misses a lot of shots. And he nails comedic bullseyes left and right. He shoots a lot. Some writers manage to not even pull the trigger. If a reader can overlook the unreadable jibberish in this book, they might find the original meme gems.

The man in the arena shoots his shots.

Today’s modernites are fish in water and the water is weakness. Incurious, indifferent, cowardice and idleness. The bravest thing to do is think, speak, care and try.

In both Mike Ma’s books, Harassment Architecture and Gothic Violence, the ideas can be dumb as shit, but his balls are so big that he could hack em off with a hatchet if he felt like it.

You, yes you reader, would have to be an idiot to think the next 50 years will be smooth emailing. I mean smooth sailing. My best writing is autocorrect slips. I mean Freudian slips. I digress.

Ma is a departure from the boring h…