Jayson Gallaway

American Literary Menace
Author of "Diary of a Viagra Fiend" - Simon & Schuster

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

One cannot, if one is being at all honest with oneself about the historical record and the peculiar physics of human aspiration under conditions of actual duress, help but register a kind of stunned, almost involuntary admiration for a country whose very birth certificate was an act of calculated, high-stakes treason against the most powerful empire then extant on the planet, a rebellion executed no by romantic guerrillas in some misty mountain fastness but by a collection of merchants, planters, lawyers, and printers who sat down, quill in hand, and told a king he could sit on his crown and go fuck himself in language so precise and so philosophically loaded that the subsequent shooting war felt almost like an afterthought, a necessary clarification of terms rather than the main event. This is the United States, right there at the root: not a gradual accretion of customs or a polite evolution of existing arrangements but a deliberate, balls-out rupture, a middle finger raised in the direction of divine-right authority while simultaneously inventing, on the fly, the notion that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed and that when consent is withdrawn the only honorable response is to start loading muskets.
And then, because history enjoys its little symmetries, the official song of this same country elects to memorialize not some pastoral dawn or abstract virtue but the specific visual phenomenon of bombs bursting in air and the rockets' red glare, a night watchman's report turned into national liturgy, complete with the flag still being there at first light after the shitbag British fleet had spent hours trying to blow it off its pole. Most anthems sing about their soil or their bloodlines or their long-dead kinds; ours sings about surviving an artillery barrage while the flag does its job of remaining visible. That detail alone ought to tell you something about the operating system.
That brings us to the thorny, often-maligned concept of American Exceptionalism. The cynics and the tenure-track deconstructionists love to pick at it like a scab, but let’s be real: the sheer, staggering inertia of American cultural and technological hegemony is a statistical anomaly. We are a messy, sprawling, paradoxical entity—simultaneously capable of profound structural madness and breathtaking, world-altering genius. We invented the jazz solo, the internet, the moon landing, and the cinematic anti-hero. We are exceptional precisely because we are a self-correcting engine powered by the friction of our own internal contradictions. We are loud, we are vulgar, we are brilliant, and we refuse to apologize for the scale of our ambitions.
What this place has managed to do, against every statistical probability and every precedent set by older, supposedly wiser civilizations, is to turn that original treasonous energy into a kind of permanent, low-grade cultural weather system in which the default setting for an individual is not resignation to one's allotted station but the working assumption that one might, with sufficient balls and sufficient luck and sufficient refusal to accept the existing map of reality, redraw the map. The result is not perfection - perfection was never on offer and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something - but a continuous, noisy, frequently ugly, occasionally sublime experiment in whether large numbers of people from every conceivable background can be left mostly alone to pursue their own versions of a better life without the state or the tribe or the church or the guild or the bloodline having the final say in the matter. The data, if one bothers to look at patents per capita, at startup formation rates, at the sheer volume of people who still risk everything to get here rather than anywhere else, suggests the experiment has not yet failed on its own terms.
To any American currently occupying square footage inside these borders who nevertheless feels compelled to announce stupidly, at regular intervals and usually at high volume, that the whole project is irredeemable, that the founding was tainted beyond repair, that the flag is merely a rag soaked in hypocrisy, and that the only honest response is permanent, performative disgust: the door is not merely unlocked, it is wide open, and the rest of the planet contains several dozen other sovereign entities, each with its own set of rules, its own hierarchy, its own tolerance for dissent, and its own historical body count. You are free to go. You are encouraged to go. Pack the passport, sell the house, buy the ticket, and discover for yourself how the alternatives actually function when the rhetorical abstractions are replaced by the daily experience of living under them. The United States will continue to function, imperfectly and loudly and with its original treasonous DNA still thrumming in the wiring, whether you stay to bitch and whine about it or not. That, too, is part of the design.

Five stars. Would commit treason against tyranny again.

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The screen is dripping black bile into the carpet, and the frequency smells like rotting copper. They sat in the rows, their eyes wide like saucers, drinking the blue light, swallowing the soft, warm hum until the tissue of the frontal lobe began to liquefy.
It wasn’t a biological contagion—no cough, no fever— just a quiet, systemic erasure of the baseline. A virus of the porous mind, an infection of the hollow spaces where common sense used to rattle around like a loose marble. Now, they walk the streets with their jaws slightly slack, repeating the phrases the box gave them at 6:00 PM, unable to tell the difference between the sun and an electric bulb, unable to realize their hands are bleeding when they grip the razor wire.
Fifty percent. A perfect, clean division. The ledger of the world is split right down the center. The damage is done, the tracks are rusted over, the synapses burned out leaving only a permanent, porcelain glaze over the pupils. They cannot be reasoned with; you cannot argue with an empty room.
And the architects in the velvet coats are standing over the map, their silver dividers measuring the only two options left on the table: The first is the great concrete grid, the silent reeducation hives, where the walls are painted a uniform gray and the loudspeakers play white noise for forty years until the ghosts are sufficiently flattened. The second is simpler, more industrial, more absolute. A long, slow march down the shale cliffs, guiding the unthinking, cooperative herds by the millions straight into the cold, forgiving mouth of the gray Atlantic, where the salt might finally wash the static from their bones.

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The Sun is a malignant, carcinogenic tumor hanging malevolently in the sky. ☀️❌

Yet the bureaucratic time-diddlers in D.C. passed the "Sunshine Protection Act" 48-1 to make Daylight Saving Time permanent. We tried Nixon’s '74 time experiment. It was a catastrophic clown show.

We don't need more Vitamin D propaganda. Give us the honest shadows. Demand the default setting.

Make Standard Time permanent. Make the night great again.

👇 Read the full, unhinged manifesto here: https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The skin is tightening now, a translucent parchment
Stretched over a geometry that no longer fits the old rooms.
I can hear the clicking of mandibles beneath my ribcage,
A restless machinery of hunger and iridescent light.
The floorboards of this life are warped,
And the ceiling is beginning to sweat with the steam of a new sun.
It is a violent unmaking, a slow-motion shattering
Of the porcelain masks I've worn since the last great rain.
The shadows in the corner are lengthening into wings,
And the air tastes of ozone and ancient, unmapped forests.
I cannot stay in this garden of wilted grievances,
Tending to the clockwork flowers that forgot how to bloom.
To you, who watched the hull crack and fall away,
Who stood in the debris of my previous selves
Without flinching at the wet, shivering thing I became -
I am reaching out a limb that is still learning its own weight.
You have been the anchor in the gray static,
The steady pulse when my own heart turned to liquid and glass.
I am stepping into a doorway made of mirrors and smoke,
Leaving behind the heavy boots of a man who only knew how to walk.
The horizon is humming a frequency I finally recognize,
A song written in the alphabet of the stars and the deep soil.
I don't know the topography of the country I am becoming,
Or if the gravity there will allow for the touch of a human hand.
But I am carving a path through the static.
Leaving a trail of phosphor for you to find.
Don't let the old ghosts hold your coat;
The exit is small, but the sky on the other side is infinite.
Come with me into the beautiful, terrifying ache of the new.

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The drawers slide open with the sound of a dry cough,
Revealing the archaeology of a Sunday afternoon.
Here is the collection of silver spoons that never tasted anything but dust,
And a stack of postcards from cities that have since changed their names.
The air in this room is stagnant, a thick broth of expired dreams,
And the smell of mothballs guarding empty suits.
I am sifting through the sediment of a nervous life.
A keychain from a summer fair,
A spectacles case line with frayed velvet,
A map with a circle drawn around a house that was torn down in 1994.
He spent sixty years worrying about the alignment of the stars,
Counting his pulse in the dark,
Building a fortress out of receipts and polite conversation.
But the clock on the mantle has already forgotten his shadow.
The wallpaper doesn’t miss his leaning weight.
There is a profound, echoing silence in the kitchen
Where he once thought his opinions held the gravity of planets.
Outside, the crows are busy with the business of being crows.
The traffic flow is rhythmic, indifferent, a river of cold neon.
In ten minutes, the memory of his scent will be scrubbed away by a pine-scented breeze.
In twenty, his chair will be a ghost-shape in a thrift store window.
The universe is a vast, mechanical yawn,
And we are the lint trapped in the gears for a flickering second
Before being puffed into the gray static of the void.
All that architecture of the ego,
The delicate lace of ‘who I am’ and ‘what I’ve done,’
Just a pile of damp cardboard in a rain-slicked alleyway.
The ink on the page is already fading into the color of a bruise,
Leaving nothing by the quiet, mocking whistle of the wind.
Through a keyhole that no longer belongs to anyone.

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

Dispatches from a Collapsing State: The Boondoggle and the Betrayal. 📉

While Newsom plays pretend on Bill Maher’s stage, Californians are paying the "Gas Pump Extortion" and funding a $231B ghost train to nowhere.

The real story from the trenches of Fecal Creek: 👉 https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs
#Californian #GavinNewsom #Boondoggle

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

I realize we’re staring down the barrel of a brutal summer, but find your solace here: we are officially halfway to Halloween!

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The sky is the color of a bruised iris,
A velvet static where the crows collide.
I am an architect of iron silhouettes,
Wading through the marrow of the morning tide.

They told me the soil was for planting,
But it only accepts the shape of a blade.
Every breath is a tactical maneuver,
In this clockwork labyrinth we've made.

My tongue is a rusted bayonet,
Sharpened on the stones of old regrets.
We speak in hollow-point whispers,
Casting shadows like fishing nets.

The infantry of days marches in silence,
A steady rhythm of leather on bone.
We are the kinds of a crumbling cellar,
Defending a fractured, invisible throne.

The ink is bitter, the ink is cold,
A dark artillery for the stories untold.
We fire our verses into the gray,
To keep the ghosts of the light at bay.

For the war is not found in the thunder,
But in the quiet collapse of the heart.
And we are the soldiers of the lexicon,
Tearing the beautiful silence apart.

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

Persiflage: the verbal equivalent of foreplay with a straight razor and a shit-eating grin. 🪒✨

Ever been trapped in a Reno casino at 3 AM by a man named "Chet" who won’t stop talking about crypto and his ex-wife’s Volvo? I have. It’s a fluorescent hellscape.

Read the full descent into madness: 👉 https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs
#WritingCommunity #Persiflage #WordOfTheDay

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The DOJ finally ditched the sterile, pharmaceutical charade of lethal injection and brought back the firing squad. It’s about time we traded ontological dishonesty for five rifles and a white bull’s-eye.

Put the marksmen on the White House lawn. Let the tourists see the literal, kinetic cost of the social contract. No more medical theater—just unadorned American finality.

Read the full manifesto: 👉 https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs
#FiringSquad #DOJ #justicedelivered #LiteraryGrit #WhiteHouse

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Ever wonder what red ants, black ants, and guilty white liberals have in common? Hint: It involves a glass jar and a complete lack of critical thinking. 🐜🍯

The SPLC just got hit with a federal indictment that reads like a dark comedy script. $3 million in "hate-money" laundering to fund the very monsters they promised to slay. The wolves weren't at the door—they were on the payroll, and the "marks" paid for the privilege of being terrified.

The carousel has crashed. The lights are on. Read the full autopsy of the greatest cultural con of the century.

👇 The SPLC Indictment: A $3 Million Hate-Money Laundering Operation https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs
#SPLC #Indictment #CulturalGrift #TheEndOfTheCon

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

I tried learning Latin just in case the Illuminati FaceTimed me. They didn't. Now I spend my time angrily screaming German in the shower. Dive into my chaotic descent into becoming a wildly mediocre polyglot.
Read the glorious trainwreck: https://t.co/EPEiNrBP7s #polyglot

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

Thought my soft, pathetic life was hard until I watched a 60-year-old Finn obliterate armies with a pickaxe and sheer spite. SISU & Road to Revenge just turned my brain into smoking rubble. Glorious, wordless carnage. Read my full meltdown at https://t.co/EPEiNrBP7s 🪓 #SISU

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

The Seconds Learned to Run (Pure Distillation)
The day began as a pale shimmer,
a thin ribbon of light unraveling
across the floorboards
as if it had forgotten how to be morning.
The air tasted faintly of old flowers
and something sweeter —
a memory that hadn’t happened yet,
pressing its forehead against the window
as though asking to be let in.
The clocks kept their distance,
hovering in the corners
like shy animals
that no longer trusted their own instincts.
Their faces glowed faintly,
not with purpose,
but with the soft embarrassment
of creatures who know
they’ve lost the race
to the very thing they were built to measure.
You appeared beside me
with that drifting, half-awake grace,
your outline wavering
as if the room couldn’t decide
whether to keep you or dream you.
Your hand brushed mine
and the moment stretched —
thin as a soap bubble,
fragile as a whispered apology —
before snapping back
with a quiet, startled gasp.
Outside, the sky folded into itself,
a slow, deliberate motion
like someone closing a book
mid-sentence.
The trees leaned inward,
their branches trembling
with the weight of too many seasons
arriving all at once.
Even the wind seemed confused,
carrying fragments of conversations
that hadn’t been spoken yet.
I felt the hours slipping past my ribs,
soft and luminous,
like fish moving through shallow water.
They didn’t hurry out of malice —
only inevitability.
The minutes blurred into streaks of color,
gentle and insistent,
as if painting over the edges
of everything I thought I recognized.
You rested your head on my shoulder
and the world tilted,
just slightly,
just enough for the future
to spill a little into the present.
We breathed in unison,
trying to anchor ourselves
to something slower,
something kinder,
something that wouldn’t dissolve
the moment we touched it.
But the seconds had already learned to run.
They darted through the room
like silver insects,
leaving trails of warmth
that faded almost instantly.
I reached for one,
just to feel its shape,
but it slipped through my fingers
with a soft, apologetic hum.
And still we sat there,
two silhouettes in a room
that couldn’t hold still,
listening to the quiet acceleration
of everything around us —
the gentle, unstoppable rush
of a world forgetting
how to move slowly.

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

"Watched Primate last night—a slasher flick where a rabid chimp takes on a pack of insufferable teens. It could have been a glorious bloodbath, but instead, it flinched. My full review (and rant) is live now: https://t.co/EPEiNrBP7s. Bring a drink. 🍿🐒"

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

Some people just lower the property value of a room by existing. Welcome to my dating life. Learn the word 'pestilential' and read about the beautiful, terrifying swamp of a human I encountered in a dive bar. Read the full disaster at https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs #amwriting #wordoftheday

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Nick Shirley found $170,000,000 of fraud in California

California is the fraud capital of the country

Where’s the money @GavinNewsom ??

[Jayson Gallaway @JaysonGallaway]

Stabbed by coworkers? Bad. Realizing the universe views you as cosmic mold? Worse.
Happy Ides of March. Celebrate Caesar's worst Tuesday and H.P. Lovecraft's death with my latest descent into madness. Ready for existential dread?
Read it: https://t.co/8sKyIIESrs
#IdesOfMarch #Lovecraft

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On this day, the "Dirty Old Man" Charles Bukowski checked out, leaving a gravestone that read: "DON'T TRY." It wasn't about laziness; it was a middle finger to pretension. Find out why his chaotic life ended with a Buddhist funeral.
Read more: https://t.co/EPEiNrBP7s #Bukowski