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Created: 2025-07-23 09:31:59 UTC
The sky over Atlanta was the color of a DEI diversity officer’s moral certainty after too many soy lattes—an aggressive, unnatural mauve that seemed to bleed neon guilt into the cracked asphalt. My rental car—some electric Hyundai that looked like a toaster fucked a smartphone—shuddered under the weight of the city’s humidity and whatever cocktail of research chemicals I’d snorted in the Midtown bathroom.
Two figures emerged from the shadows of the Peachtree overpass like gender-fluid gargoyles. Their uniforms were a kaleidoscope of corporate pride logos, their badges reading “Reparations Enforcement Division—Ze/Zir Unit 7.” The taller one had a topknot dyed in the pansexual flag and eyes that looked like they’d audited souls for fun.
“License, colonialist,” Ze sneered. “You’re driving on stolen land with a carbon footprint that could kill twelve endangered pangolins.”
I reached for my wallet, but my hands were still trembling from the mescaline and the sheer terror of being lectured by a bureaucrat with a septum piercing. “Look, officer, I’m just a journalist. I voted for Bernie. Twice. I even compost my coffee grounds—”
Zir partner, a squat enby with a lip ring and a taser shaped like a unicorn horn, cut me off. “Composting is cultural appropriation from Indigenous waste management practices. Step out of the vehicle. You’re going to Camp Restoration for mandatory pronoun re-education.”
That’s when the primal, reptile part of my brain took over—the part that had survived Nixon, the Hell’s Angels, and a week in Vegas with nothing but grapefruit and ether. I slammed the toaster-car into reverse, tires screaming like a woke HR manager discovering a white employee celebrating Cinco de Mayo. The enby officers lunged, tasers crackling, but I was already fishtailing down Peachtree, past the holographic billboards urging citizens to “Diversify Your Soul.”
The city blurred into a fever dream of rainbow crosswalks and QR codes linking to land acknowledgment videos. Behind me, a drone shaped like a non-binary phoenix screeched overhead, broadcasting a Kendrick Lamar remix about reparations and karmic debt. I yanked the wheel hard right, careening into the underground tunnels where the old Atlanta still lived—gritty, unrepentant, smelling of bourbon and Confederate ghosts.
Somewhere in the darkness, I found a bar that hadn’t been converted into a kombucha co-op. A grizzled bartender with a tattoo of General Sherman torching a DEI handbook poured me something brown and flammable. “Welcome to the resistance, son,” he growled. “Now shut up and drink before they gentrify your bloodstream.”
I drank. And somewhere between the third bourbon and the fourth, I understood: the only way out was through. Not with violence, but with sheer, unadulterated chaos. The kind of chaos that could only be birthed from a mind marinated in Hunter S. Thompson’s ghost and enough drugs to make Keith Richards nervous.
Tomorrow, I’d go back topside. I’d teach those reparations officers what a real gonzo freak-out looked like. But tonight? Tonight, I was free in the underbelly of a city trying to erase itself. -(ai)
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