Midnight’s Talking Lion and the Wedding Fire [excerpt]

From Nebraska Call of Duty drone glow in Hazrat Ali or
Khanzad Castle bleaches green from trees, air hollow empty
but full of sharp. B-52s drop unguided reporters, credentials
flapping in wind, to interview dissidents left to weaponless
play. Life not only stupid reproduction and pleasure-seeking
process but also in service of a truth. Happiness not category
of truth, but of being – knowledge an unhappy thing, constant
translation.

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Ruin graffiti: “This is my name; I existed.” Want is reason
speech comes. Great Dane walking over crushed concrete
and broken glass arouse memory of something whole. Shrapnel
used to sharpen children’s pencils. Some shelter in libraries –
books absorb shrapnel peerlessly; different relationship
to responsibility. Cat asleep on a chest, ears intermittently
radaring subtly to the din of cluster bomblets outside. Most
common condition of infants rushed in: hard debris lodged
in mouths, throats; finger it out, turn on stomach and pound
the back. Or blue blouses, ammonia gas and mouth-
foam—hardly history depending on proximity to power—same
problem yet again – the body. Chernobyl said some sicknesses
can’t be cured; you just have to sit and watch them.

Radiant bitumen sky’s helicopter circling with infrared
equipment, and he’s still not back. 4.26.86 / 1:23:58, Energy
Block #4 of CNPS, steam blast upper plate of reactor
through roof, accompanied by hot lumps of graphite igniting
when exposed to air. The remaining roof is like walking on tar,
as taking hold of a hand purple like winter cabbage, skin leaf
sticking to yours. Later remont hospital rooms – scraped
the walls down to studs, excise parquet. The World Cup is on
and outside everywhere animals instead of people – thorium,
uranium timed. Morgue tailors a suit for the portion of body
left, like an animal everyone is interested in, but knows nothing
about. Design flaw. Burning home villages like Afghanistan,
Tajikistan, Germans here in Belarus. Two sarcophaguses
for the only body killed by the ruins, one for Block #4, meters
of concrete and lead. Twentieth Century pyramid. But we’ve
seen what the flourishing earth does with design flaws. Still, no
one can speak in a way that can be answered.

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And what of the trauma “our brave men and women” who are
called from Texas or Maine to remote control from.
Improvised mental amputation devices. Drone(s). According to
estimated 22 veterans day their own lives last year more at
hands than the hands of others, staggering. At what human
point do own devices seem too late for the current. What
might look like some kind of unclear understatement
historically not gone. New Yorker, researcher: “increased civil
wars since 1999. Thanks years of guerrilla finance, selling
crops, smuggling years to solve further tribes in the West. To
deal the business expansion loss through limited operations.
Particularly after 14 years of more years.

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Instituting an equal playing field France creates distinct
atmosphere of hostility especially in townships and public
housing, and in particular, toward the observant, particularly
deep-rooted difference eliminated veils, crosses, kippas, public-
sector workers – from teachers to post office or train station
staff wearing beliefs.

In the name of private details law enforcement agencies 
allow ample new power, including demonstrations 
that undertake electronic citizens’ freedoms in an effort 
to provide support of a zenith in hijacking response 
to communication and creation of further French Muslims
helped create a system where 70% of the population expanded
powers allowing for a long institution of emergency electronic
prerogative in judicial Paris mosques.

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Again, generally, one of the greatest fortunes of life in the West
is emphasis on concerns about an uptick in spending; a dip
in confidence and a nudge up for parties champion rigidity.
Shifting focus from PATRIOT Act is just one consideration
of surrealism and a dream of freedom for objects beyond 
our reach, desire-stories, continuous movements of escape, 

a phantom freedom, a term of thrown precision, driven 
by a perceived psychic legacy, Strengthening Appropriate Tools 
to Obstruct or alter the heart, the relationship between
government and citizens built on reaction, in large part,
centering around the World Trade in rubies. Conjures

a site of simultaneity or plane of immanence where actors past
meet future movement – extension without development. This
is to understand a bomb site – ruins joining 1967 to a Port
Authority Building. Times and Earthworks.”                                                 

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Expressing important ideas blandly concerned with secondary
complexity of episodes violence run-of-the-mill, disturbing the
streets or TV. And in water torture is the socially
transformative that would indicate institutionalized equality,
rather than institutionalized prejudice; one of the ways in which
it cannot help but become hyper-aware of potential
experiences. One cannot just be one’s organic freedom.
To move through smoothly as any of us. Might blocked. 
Thus citizenship. Altered is a kind of normalized post-

traumatic time within it, and limit accuracy sensation. “Do
feelings feeling if they speak to a lack? Hazard a warning. Sign
a disturbance. Don’t like you are mistaken.” The issue noted
elsewhere is about not just run-of-the-mill run-of-the-mill-ness

but the everyday-ness of those episodes part of what makes
them. So whether streets or news, events are, in fact (if often
like drop by daily drop), oftenen backward ways that indicate.