Publishing the Yokel Songs

 So now I'm neck deep in the Yokel Songs again.

This time I'm abridging the Yokel collections for publication - turns out, in my old Google blog: johnwenstrom.com -- but maybe then on Substack.

The Yokel is everything that the patriarchical MAGA oligarchy tries to demonize.

The Yokel is doomed, woke, bardic, vulnerable, pretty, trans, comic, altruistic, elegiac, splendid, and loving. 

The Yokel Songs celebrate the joy of living in the world as a sexual body. 

The longer books were "finalized" and printed in September 2024 - they continue to be the editorial baseline, though they have to change to keep up.

I hope that I can post essays such as this one on Substack, and the selected Yokel collections too. 

The idea of publishing the collections on a schedule and trying to get people to subscribe seems preen-y to me -- not that I don't enjoy preening, but I don't want to enlist people to watch me preening. We'll see.

That's the plan right now.

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Here are all of the collections in Chakra order:

Root -  Blood Red - Doomed Yokel
Woke Yokel
Sacrum - Orange - Bardic Yokel
Solar Plexus - Yellow or Gray - Vulnerable Yokel
Todos COLORES - Pretty Yoke
Heart - Grass Green - Trans Yokel
Yokel Comedian
Throat - Royal Blue - Altruistic Yokel
Third Eye -  Deepest Blue - Elegiac Yokel
Crown - Purple - Splendid Yokel
Root - Rose Red - Loving Yokel

I have also chosen five songs from each set to publish in 55 Selected Yokel Songs. That might go on Substack some day, not sure.

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Doomed Yokel - The Yokel bears witness to the takeover of American society by a fascist oligarchy headed by a terrorist clown.

Woke Yokel - The Yokel bears witness to the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Bardic Yokel - The Yokel takes a dim Platonic view of poets.

Vulnerable Yokel - The Yokel faces the challenges of friendship.

Pretty Yokel - The Yokel takes pleasure in their own sole body.

Trans Yokel - The Yokel imagines Calarel the Fairy Elf as their preferred identity.

Yokel Comedian - The Yokel enjoys their own snarky wit.

Altruistic Yokel - The Yokel bears witness to a misleadingly-hopeful American presidential election.

Elegiac Yokel - The Yokel mourns the death of friends and anticipates their own death.

Splendid Yokel - The Yokel crowns themselves Fairy-Elf of existence.

Loving Yokel - The Yokel recounts a beautiful Platonic friendship.

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