Future Sarcasm. Poetry by Michael Buckius and Art by Doug Bale. Full Color Paperback. 45 pages. September 1st, 2020. ISBN 9781948800983.

“The poems and graphics of Future Sarcasm are worth hoarding in a quarantine.  Doug Bale’s vivid post-fun images are loud and saturated with all the color that has been drained from Michael Buckius’ dry wit prophesies, as they mourn donut-ghosts of better times now that population control is the national leisure activity.  Buckius is the poetic offspring of James Tate and Mitch Hedberg with grunge-styled idioms that require little maintenance to show indifference to the end of the world. Together Bale and Buckius are the rhythm section for a marching band that lost sight of why they should compete for a rhetorical trophy.”

~Shawnte Orion author of The Existentialist Cookbook and Gravity & Spectacle