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© 1990 J. Drucker 
HISTORY OF 
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ori~lnal sin 
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classical form 
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Fra~ments of a testimonial to history. some lived and realized moments open to claims of memory 

n the 
Soft, fat, slow time takes its first breath following the i 
1. 

beginning was the 

world, nursed on 

the warm breast 

of chaos fast fol


lowing a night of 

initial explosion, making light into a face swaddled in warmth and 

hard publicity. 
Genetics produced 
the fullness 
thereof and a new 

1. Ideas take flight, fast and sloppy, winged with desire to make 
their swift way in the world, hiding their strike capacity in the 
secret moment of impact which rang in our ears as we ran 
away confused by that first big bang. 


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The all-American dream girl: 
long-legged, blue-eyed, blonde 
and a huntress, a Dluse, the 
law and the word adored. 

letters. Our earth took us to heart and mind in the intellectual embrace of a cool companionship. 


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cosmology 
emerged as the 

...

flight from 

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3. S'ix days or seven a brother or two sisters, not pictured here, 
were the stars of the nuclear configuration, fractured and split 
in the familiar pattern and spreading to the cardinal points of 
of the psychic globe, raised in the old testament way, with

InnOCence 

natural light, harsh, swift judgement, and stories, many 
many stories told over again against the text to dis\tuise and 
~ distract our labor. 

locked them ~ 
out of the garden. 


Self a blocked off space of time, private allowance, childish hands marking a face organized as science. 

DELIGHT was unearthly 
in the early stages of undress. 
Knowledge was a hot routine 
to the primal primitives, 

4. Grandfather one day from the sea and another in a bucket, tracking sand, one of 
... our own most ancient relations, dense with history, his own, end the knowledge of 

.. 
others: so the shape of the headdress, stars and animals to find their way and 
satisfy the primitive ache of the human imagation. 


original humans 
scattering their 
seed across 
Love was a questi()n asked nightlythe receding 
waters ofa 5. Testing procedures: maternal mode of reason calibrated 
the instruments with a mother's touch, measured out as law. 
new earth. to induce sleep, insoluble conundrums dropped 
6. Cranking the machine, generating 
life forms, tears suspended: 
a miracle: we held the tricky 
devils in our hands until they fled 
seduced by the wind into believing 
they were moisture; only traces 
remained. bitter salt which we 
licked from the wounds of time. 
on the tongue or given like a gift through ears and lips to cheeks and skin. 
A WH0 LE string of father 
figures was displaced one by 
2. First blow, the hand of god, by blow came skills so that we crept out of our holes 
armed with the new technology and ready to have it make the world for us. 

byone, in a long 

list of names 

crossed out in a 

major struggle 

for survival. 

and formed the hard won figures into a name scrambling 

THE LAW 

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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tatlng transgres


the order on the soft linoleum and scattering 

the language underfoot. Literacy and intimacy 

collapsed in conversations stolen from routine 

Words came easy and letters worried off the walls 
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** 8. Take aim little weapon of my heart and make the best possible

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

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9. Persistence of memory, coaxed into view and ... 
flashing like a billboard advertisement for the 
virtues of rebellion against small town fundamentalism. 



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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. 


SNAKES and 

¥

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.

o" 

RUTIN 

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 

WHOLE TRIBES became 

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involved in the naming of eleg, 


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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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untranslatable into the daylight speech of cle.

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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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18. Disciples without principles, thank ~od, sat throu~hout, side

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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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,.. 19. There was talk of a barbeque and there were 
strenuous objections in some -hind 
-quarters. 
~~ Writin~ returned from a trip and mapped 
19. 
OODO 0 
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by a horse and lost while Alex 
climbed over the mountains 
and set his seal on the wide 
plains he surveyed with his 
gaze. There were still no trains. 
20. This must be the Renaissance: we looked at the stars and I saw my face. I'm a pi~, 
I cried. My den, he said, the whole of the animal knl~dom has passed this way. I looked 
down and saw by the trail of footsteps that It was true. I looked a~ain and the' stars were 
marchln~ off to have their baths and we were all stuck on the ~round without them. 
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Roads went in 
everywhere 
& tales of pyramids 
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 


.c .t!~'.

messages belore '~!.~~~)

j~( 

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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a virus of civility in


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 emotional 
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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1. 

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 

¥ 

safe haven of her children's dreams. 

as an exerCIse 
á 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 

: * and fortified the 

* 
: * 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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I~I ". C~m."".on' ..... h" "''''on' .h. ~m."m"

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~ ~ applied far too much to match her fron tier mentality. 

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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abrupt severity.

IS 

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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 

.nund¥¥,nnn¥. 

path, which was reinvented 

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


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. 


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37. After makln~ contact with the humans 
they be~an requlrln~ uniforms in all forel~n 
and hard-headed service. 
conflict mitigated by the secret notebooks. 
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Up out of the seas and 
offered their exotic 
::;:;::::';:re::';:;::.:":"::.7'~:w bodies fo r specula ti ve 
else could they deal with the contract 
under such circumstances. ¥ ¥¥InvestIgatIon. 
tiny writing attempting to escape detection, detailed narratives of orphan melodramas, 
tragic plights 
The NEW WORLD 
kept its shining promise 
to provide a regular 
source of income 
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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. 


stl

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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l to come looking for engagement.". 

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dged , 
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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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structures of obedience 

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

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* 43. A small group of volunteers, still in their boxes, swallowed the 
secret formula to keep it from enemy hands. 
vestments which took up 
their banquet of imperialism 
with the angular momentum 
of a manifest destiny. 
fhe feminine was dominant eclipsing the satellite into early irre 
THE OLD WORLD settled 
44. From behind enemy lines there were mysterious 
telecommunications; we listened in on the upstairs line 
while she told one cryptic story after another. 
the stuff of dreams to clog the childhood 
senses, thrilling the prepubescent limbs 
with unspeakable urges. 

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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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45. 
45. Pods, ciphers and other mysterious devices found their 
way into the bloodstream of modern life and proved themselves 
as promised in those lessons learnt at the knee and 
poured down our ears like ~ospel 
ly 
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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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ft' 
pARALLEL 
lives, dark colonies 
and lighthouses 
combin


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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powerful dynamic 
of intimate 
relations. 

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one who was her who was I is I. 

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>ugh 

48. Elected officials came to depend

in the long twisted afternoon. 
more and more on luck and table 

manners. 

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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. 


si~ 
ONE CIVIL WAR 

49, Fetish commodity the realities here were 
u n speakable but had somethln~ to do with 

broke out a rash of 

dancln~. 

conflicts while the 

onto the receptive surface of the skin and also marked 

by scars of pleasure stolen as pain in private lives whose 

witnesses were bound and gagged to remain immutably 

machines bred for the 

business took over 

everywhere in the 

landsc~pe and on film. 


51. Not all of us had fun that afternoon and left behind she cleaned up 
In the manner of role IIlodels provided and with batteries included for 

complicit and anonymous.

once. 


t of sight and mind which precipitated into verse and rhyme intime. 

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52. Which contains a camera, a machine

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* ~un, a recording device, an electronic

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bu~. and a season premiere ticket-all* 

without benefit of fin~erprints.

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CITIES SPOKE to the 

face of the factories which 

dominated the metaphoric 

skyline with the blue and 

hopeless smoke of indus


trial dreams. Little children 

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53. Makin~ do his beard was a little rou~her than usual as he 
bent to chan~e the an~le of chin to a~ile blade. 

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suffered to come unto 
the heavy heat of 
labor and finally the 
trains came, stark track 
on the back of a con


¥

tlnent. 

The adolescent juices mauled the intellect stealing its baggage and corrupting the soul of willingness into ~ 

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DISENFRANCHISEMENT 
followed naturally from the politesse 
of exploitation while a 

* refracting itself hormonally each fracture finding a cracked voice 

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and 

54, After the accident a famous man 
cannot show his face and so takes up 
other means of confronting the world . 

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machines and made them grow sending 

little messages like valentines and a few 

got loose and went into space and landed 

back on the dinner table and would not 
behave. 

55. 

56, The tack squad had to restore order any way it could -it was 
clear the enemy was playing hardball with our hearts and minds. 

whole generation call


;ness into a dark passage 

ing themselves bene


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factors concocted 

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stable seeming institutions 
to cast their own 

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names in the shadow

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through which to make a mask of passion 
mocked by the inept handling of the SEnses 
and vocabulary in a fabricated agony. 

57. What was wiped off her face and came back 
to haunt her unmercifully with a gaping rush. 


58. Dumb cliche but there was a close transit throu~h the sky 
so It loomed like a dinner plate deceptively lar~e and inordinately 
beautiful. 

of hard cut stone before 
their passing. Suited, 
seated male busts 
replaced the conquering 
heros at the edges 
of the farmland. 

Calling in cliches to aid in their development the stories progressed precipitously. 

COST OF LIVING 
rose into the air to be 


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b, 
sa 
af 

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59. Crowned heads of state, 
humbled by events In the heavens, 
60. Birthplace of a nation sprin~in~ up ready-made memorabilia just in the nick of time to fill 
the politick cate~orl' of ~enerlc childhood home. 
crept into place In the haystacks 
of history. 


61. 

62. Captains of industry. exemplars of value. civic lunches 
in the best tradition. 

Pairin~ was obsessional as writin~ was tracks traces 

locked in drawers to which the key had been abandoned. 

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.¥. broadcast image. N ow 
~ was the time for some 

serIOUS war mOVIes, 


blinding the trenches 
~~s~O~~~Sg:;:,~:;:e':¡f:i:s~i::I:~. andburnt at both ends and the stake for the 
sake of actual sacrifice but wasn't it 
WI-th Serl-OUS eXpIOSI-ves 
after all too late? 

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.¥. while an entire genera.
... tion was sold to the 

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~.; 61. The red s un shone in the full fat belly of the whale. lDaking its 
~:; way against all odds. 


65. Free dancln~ lessons became 
standard public policy-here demonstrated 
by an obli~in~ member of the 
board. 

Long enough to fly many devious messages into the soul and back 

Science threatened to take over with its rote mythologies and nothing broke but 

narrative of 

horror. A deep 

slump follow


ed the quick 

drunk of eu


phoria and the 

proverbial bal


loon of finance . 
.. 

burst and was 

thrown from a 

window by 

64. Into the mouth of the monster they went, intrepid, as the quiverin~ 

membrane vibrated against their touch, inhaled as so much dust into the 
very nostrils of the ventilation shaft and wonderin~ what dreams they 
had bou~ht into. 


the heavy hand of publicity.

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but hearts in a dialogue encapsulated in a past which hid it from the mother ship. 

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SAINTS & GENIUSES, 
leaders and rebellions, were 
all quietly allowed to come 



67. Frozen assets, a hunk 
of mammoth, which was 
hidden, the deep freeze of 
mind, resistant to thaw 
and temptation. 

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66, The mysterious forces of the universe clouded our limited 
understandin g. 

into their own and go 


back out again. A totalizing 
pull toward 
fantasy mobilized the 


68. The Inevitable course of history all in those few sentences, emblems, 
and primal codes, a fine matter of private memory, dripping its grey 
instincts onto the page. 


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Writin~ was still reli~ious, practiced late with candles 

and incantations unedited for later reference 69. Avery po~ular mid-century jello 

mold, trembhng on the edge of some 
discoveryá 


troops again while 
style became the distinguishing 
feature of 
the genocidal regime. 

and developin~ revery. When speakin~ ceased the notebooks fi led with seepage, horror spreadin~ 

inw 

in an all too comforta


7! 

ble relation to the audience 
while the media 


BARBED WIRE 
crackled against flesh 

70. The season instituted once and for all to set the pace of sales events and keep up with changes of 
fashion hanging in the air around the capital. 

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I. . Once the stepsisters left theball our friend 
came Into focus and action, making her 
way In the world. 
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voted the smiling 
fascists into place re-! 
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peatedly and all the I 
72. Plankton, here enlarged many 
times actual size, forge a link in 
the food chain with their characteristic 
geometry, 
'.. 
rest of history sank ~ 
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back into the reper-: 
inward. toire of late night 
reruns and creationist 
fast forward replays 
of the news 
75, All the memory of the world. 
73. Mermaid lovers objecting to military 
service were to be refused shore 
leave repeatedly until they learned 
the words to all the songs. 
ID DDDDDDDDDDDDD 74. The gospel according to -a religious order, known for Its 
reticence, vow of silence, and difficulty breathing. 

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manufactured as the 
day's events. Women 
were returned to fami


" .M".'oo"h¥¥¥ h ..~.'.U=.." liar bondage and we 

balanced on the ed~e of the universe 

_o.'n¥¥n"~."'..oohU.'on. ate meat instead of 
fresh air in the spirit of 

¥

corporate enterprIse 

without returns on our 

until the drug release brought words to 

surface as displacement, opaque, hermetic, 

arcane and sealed against the cops and 

robbers game of understanding. 

While love was a 

77. The heart of the mechanism, the soul of a new machine 
howlin~ in the wilderness in order to be heard. 

mon 

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out 


79. The order they had placed almost without thinking mocked 
them with its familiar face and tone. 

Dark were the days and li~ht was a beacon 
companion overflowin~ all boundaries, 


SO. Hovering auras haloed their heads and thestateof grace was not 

entered Into without passing through the border patrol and making 

sure they were in the right place in their reading. But when they 

looked in the book -


investments while our sparkling 
earth risks being lost along 
with all the other forms 
of innocence consumed in the 
history ofthis world. 

monster out of place and words were bound and determined makin~ their impression by proxy as exchan~e. 


7S. A drug king pin, doubling as a teammate 
out of his league and into ours. 


.. Now taking my tongue back into my lap. * 

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In fond and profound memory of my mother. At the Bow and Arrow Press, Adams House, Harvard 
University. Summer 1989 through late Spring 1990. In Caslon on Warren's Lustra dull. Many thanks 

to Gino Lee and Charles Steele. 

Of 70 copies this is :::2-~ 

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