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7. Travel to forei~n lands was recommended as a cure for ennui but writing, home was harder than they ima~ined with a lan~ua~e invented for business. and the whole nei~hborhood look

came down the

In~ on. The brother ~ave advice while the sisters

filled up pa~es with what were Indecipherable

forms.

mountain & up our heritage dic

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the order on the soft linoleum and scattering

the language underfoot. Literacy and intimacy

collapsed in conversations stolen from routine

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use of the tools and tar~ets of self-torture.

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At school they were put through their

paces, and the first swift thrill cam.e

from watching the man put his daughter

on his knee and then out of sequence

lightning strikes!

Hand in glove, now abandoned, slipped into the pocket of repressed behavior, dressed up and then

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Sions we were subject to perform. Suckling the calf until it turned golden exhausted their piety. Banished to the desert the chosen ones

spoke out on the empty air.

schooled to understand resistance, inherent anger ground into the soul swallowing memories of tortured afternoons, athletic energy bound into. anklets curbing the instincts against the strict measure of hard rules.

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partIng waters

charmed them

back into civili

zation where

writing began in

their own name.

Now language

11. Days in salt water and other clues dished up when the waters parted and then hun~ out to dry, beached

debris from the summer's washed out memory turning,

pink the hot atmosphere of re~ret.

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10. Fra~ments of the ori~inal memory comes in molecules like the one which reeches clear as breath with its tale of early success and easy Iivin~, a tale told by an idiot, si~nifyin~ crumbs left on the path to find their way home.

14. Makln~ way the sl~n of the passion -f1amin~ red

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11. Moses, In the fash ion of t h e day, testin~ the safe and sane means of enterin~ the waters from which he could work his own prefi~utatlon wh ile his brother refused to let him touch hot sand.

colonized the whole

Mediterranean and

spread trade on its re

ceipts. The cold north

Pleasure was slight, sweet, and spasmodic, secret and unachieved. was still peopled by primitives rubbing themselves with blue to resemblethe cold.

13. Communications overreached the lon~ arm of absence takes its toll on the line and makes ~ood with the Increase of static waitin~ patiently in the service of t h e lord.

15. Everybody who was invited came, I think, but It was not my party and I cried waiting for the supper to

redeem us from the awkward social situation

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ments as forces acting out ^w their own revenge in the quotidian mythology of humanoid actions. Cities sprang up and lent the goddesses a

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16. Some lamb: Bittersweet and poignant memory, the sacrifice made as a ritual the night before death, real death.

17. Somebody had promised a

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hu~e contribution but the food * ~ot cold and had to be sent back * to be reheated in the kitchen where the cat was eatin~ its way * throu~h the turkey headfirst. '.

name for their towns. Ritual sacrifice foretold a future without

Response was vetoed clapping a hand on the dream through the

which we would

have been inha

bited by extra

terrestrials. In

thin clothes of sleep, squeezing the moment with inept attempts at a climax

the wars Troy was trampled

ech of clean vocabulary after the harsh taboo snapf-ed shut the door to understanding.

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* by side their heads bobbln~ up and down on the waves of conversation they each felt just like the brother they n ever had.

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Roads went in everywhere & tales of pyr amids and pic

21. Heaven and earth feB to their organizin~ system, order broke out everywhere like a plague of conspicuous reason.

ture language

time in exotic

the measured space of pages paid out like

filtered thru the mails. Airwaves carried \t

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_{messages b}elore '~!.~~~)

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the phones and

lands where a place named Europe might have been a nation in the mind

but got toured and recorded in an infantile essay colonizing the domain of the real.

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23. Search parties -the son with the

sun with the mother to the ends of the known earth or at least the bay with tales of adventure too wild to sit well by

vaded the land. A

the domestic hearth.

child born from light was hung up as a man

Knowledge as language, the word of the mother, got passed through exchange linked hand to mouth.

for meat and changed the course ofthe emo tional mainstream. Allegiance became a

Sudden expletives caught on the phone lines.

24. Chart sent out from the old country laid out the city before they landed on streets which Impressed the primal territory until they were Indistinguishable

22. Looking over his property and loving It: new worlds or at

least new continents burst into view.

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25. Trying des perately to get the sewers Into place before the folks arrived they poked at the pipes with their sticks and sang sang sang .

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hard rock of gospel spread through lions and into the arena of freeplayand phallacy. The last of the conquerors fell (rather

26, Primitive tool were used for games and eating dirt off the end of the blade in the process of squeezing ~~~ the earth between our teeth when the knife failed to penetrate the reluctant ground.

ages ofhumankind. Principles both human and ".@ divine solidified ~

27. First first lady a real trend setter _ barked at the moon and back a~ain, all the way home in a cab and then -, checkin~ h er pursefor pennies they all fall out and are brou~ht into the

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safe haven of her children's dreams.

as an exerCIse · through which Mind was made .

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~ Rich bejewelled

Conversations heard from the floor playing audience to one-sided

sequences of sound working communication out in the blanks between

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* : ^* middle ages sent

themselves to be

'.' 28. The ima~e, not quite alikeness, used on a product line, came back to haunt her when she went out to :. : shop ami found herself buyin~ herself in a shockin~reco~nition, blind faith and brilliant li~ht, hot speed•• of heavy vo1ta~e.

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be redeemed for prizes while the treasures of the earth emerged and followed a predestined path towards grace and the European capitals.

phrases young sentences like birds took off in imitation of adult flight

MONARCHS took

domains by poisons

into lengthy halls of overheard complexity

30. The civi1izln~ Influence of homesteadln~ was not to be discounted.

nuancin~ a dance of action into calculated speech

flirtation a body lan~ua~e

more than repartee

and personality into realms where History, which began a bit later, whispered into their ears about the invention ofperspective, a necessary ingredient to

31. The gate to the alley had to be kept locked and they listened to ope.a after opera in the yard hoping to find a clue to their own Identity.

raked us with a ruthless ^a

32. Technology was Improving all around them at a great pace; appliances mutated according to the genetic programs which centuries earlier had been the exclusive province of an all too fr"gile kingdom,

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timely representation of the past.

the wit served as a hook, no bones about the sharp-edged tongue

REAL books

were composed

and typed out

through the fin

gers of bright

boy apprentices

on their knees

before the glory

of handmade

33. What was the make of this machine? An enemy sub so cleverly disguised, snuck through the curtain and began to perform -those clever devils.

tasks. A huge library burn2:~;::::: ed much of antiquity in its

this UlUSt have been

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path, which was reinvented

Domestic acts shifted to a violent expression, straining to hear from an upstairs landing the·

by Italian ecstasy and then put into order by the Teutonic violence ofclassification. Whole continents rose

children pressed to the walls with ears bared,

bellies filled with harsh notes of judgement,

35. Outlaw funds fell into responsible hands, work was a legitimate excuse for not going out. and he paid his investments handsomely into his pockets, where they did not go to waste exactly.

Playthings bothered to com

38. Moses and his brother were not among the guests that afternoon, still, we dredged the bay for bright, tiny fish and brought up puffers white like pearls. bellies glistening in the net, inflated promises which

dissolved under scrutiny into taxonomy_

while ancient cultures could only hold their breath so long against

the inroads ofhomogenlzlng commerce.

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giving in to instincts by response to force, the

39. Summer sun and ritual activities performed in the dunes without end or warning, dreaming of a

primordial swamp full of treasures from which we had sprung, unlabelled, onto the w.t and shiny surface of (he mudflat.

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40. Science made our minds into a conversatioD9 scene of a microscopic partnership, a binary arranltement stuck to specimens with pine and gum trapping air and information in the same bubbles the eye pretended to know.

41. The uncles rode with Jesse James and made a legend in her body which was athletic form restrained beneath the good behavior of maiden aunts intolerant of adventure or imagination.

A TINY ROCK was doormat to a continent and on the pretext of religion a clearing was hacked out of the

.. children boarded into schools with unforgiving mistresses and strict orderings of the day into a regime of yearned for discipline, the beating craven as submission, being taken, hard reprimand

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wild woods for a meal and several centuries' expansion. At the instant of independence

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Long leisured afternoons turning the book into pages of delight, vicariously thrilled by the paperback lives into unarticulatable drives and desires.

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ly 1	irrelevant otherness, rendered useless, secondary in the constant search for small print and thin paper into familiar squabbles, decapitating its lineage and making way for the trains that were to be. Frozen wastes deterred yet another hero, keeping the whole

46. Later we learned to eat our words and pretend to enjoy them, but in wartime the men in the subs had to be content with what looked conspicuously like salad.

from his grasp until he was also banished to languish while the rest of the world whose history is unwritten

D for a heroine densely trapped in plots and vapors which meant destiny playing itself out through :lf

here and elsewhere developed apace apart.

D Fainting spells conjured empty houses full of secret passages and spells played out as rituals in

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47. These birds used to get messages and even a little entertaining gossip across the trenches, tucking the best bits of gossip up under their wings before letting It fly.

ed in labor and

abuse, the too

Sweet sugar of fiction sucked the brain into romantic poses

postures gathered from tales in which one figured oneself

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' one who was her who was I is I.

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48. Elected officials came to depend

in ^{the long twisted afternoon.} more and more on luck and table

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Childhood pacts swept away the cobwebs of correct behavior, opening pockets of time out of

50. Even the primitives had ~otten bobbed hair and wore nothln~ next to the " skin but spandex stretched from limb to limb accoss a ~ap In the or~anlzed domain of knowled~e.