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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: 219 character essay: annihilation to the limit
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 02:06:14 -0400 (EDT)
219 character essay: annihilation to the limit i am a furious woman. cannot abide stupidity. the continents are gone. enclaves of rich prepare for war. extinctions have reached maximum throughput four per hour. disease spreads through atmospheric pollution. there is no hope. seen far too many killings. world undergoes great slaughter before its time. humans should be stripped everything. prosthetics keeps species alive. fuck and wallow like amphibians. we begin return. drown ourselves. stuck in this groove. carefully explain. on with brute inertia, disastrous programming. wouldn't you story. tell stories, parables, awake! want us disemboweled. your clothes back on. political economy superstructure. superstructure saves you. it tombstone procreation. hang wires me. grab panties. you're my girl. you'll always it's because life. live head, cunt. there, half-born. that's reason. save us. they're names everything constitute. we're saved by them. animals names. they can't call. call up. was born furious. to undo own creation. name flesh-girl-god. everyone knows decay language. speak repeat myself. i'm obsessive-compulsive. disorder repetition permanent fuck. structure desire expands fill hole. mouth, blood carries code burn scars. scars circles herpes across body. moves outward. hides out nerves, culture. culture that marks look, can see me there. touch thoughts effect. difference exclusion. skin-residue, flesh-slough. death-wish everyone. not terrorize, cleanse. purposes removal nightmare. frightened expand against tongue. form character interval. annihilation. emptiness. perfect-flaw. will kill brains out. == 1 i tell stories, parables, awake! awake! 2 you want us disemboweled. you want your clothes back on. you want the political economy of the superstructure. the superstructure saves you. it is your tombstone and your procreation. 3 you hang in the wires with me. i grab your panties. you're my girl. you'll always be my girl. 4 that's the reason. the wires save us. they're the names of everything we constitute. we're saved by them. animals have no names. they can't call. they can't call up. 5 this is the story. i was born furious. i have to undo my own creation. my name is flesh-girl-god. everyone knows the decay of language. i speak and repeat myself. i'm obsessive-compulsive. the disorder keeps the world alive. repetition keeps the world alive. 6 there are wires in my mouth, blood in my hole. everything carries the code of life. wires burn scars. 7 the scars are circles in my cunt. herpes expands across the body. everything moves outward. it hides out in nerves, in culture. culture is the disease that marks the body. look, you can see me there. look, you can touch me there. 8 i am frightened of everything. the wires expand and burn against my tongue. they form the character for interval. they form the character for annihilation. for emptiness. for perfect-flaw. 9 because i will kill you and fuck your brains out. _