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861 ls *.txt
862 grep -h -v http net* > texts
863 grep -h -v http Blood.txt >> texts
864 grep -h -v http Weather.txt >> texts
865 grep -h -v http Uncanny.txt >> texts
866 grep -h -v http Fantasm.txt >> texts
867 grep -h -v http ?.txt >> texts
...
870 grep -h -v http ??.txt >> texts
882 gzip texts.txt
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as older
as older i grow, the crystalline world crystallizes,
my brain harpoons through silicon and salts, membranes torn,
shrunk, fissured, cleft; i burn those wounds with theory,
language stitched, sutured, mouth speaking tongues,
barely a rhythm left, semen slips on its own time, space
imagines healing until unhealing, lips parted, cliffed
memories and recitals, i learn to veer away. until memory
returns, harsh, making no difference to others,
alive. by then i am gone as the world's cleft teeters,
sore, sworn without me, by then, there is then then, hard,
and obdurate. i cannot mouth, dirt, names are that river
of worlds, known, unraveled, soaked, drowned in mind only,
born in mind only, death's whisper of a certain afternoon,
moaned, muted, towards no one or other, i make, am, fluid,
borne stones, cairn, already futured past, memorial. they
have not grown, old, nor young, they have not grown
Imperial
The U.S. beast all over the world now behead it. The U.S. imperialists
rape and slaughter, and now the young men and women of this beloved
country, at our head, will march as before, onwards and wounded, their
skin on fire, their tongues cut out with prayer. And yes, when I rise into
the air my head swells and fills all heavens like a monsoon, like a
monstrosity, like a monotreme, so that when I'm running it's crazy, my
head presses into my toes! Now it's death of birth and the denouement of
soft-spoken life. When I'm running it's crazy, my head presses so high
into the sky, monster! monster! imperialist! I will cut my head off, and
when I rise into the air my head swells and fills all heavens like a
monomaniac, like a monad. All over again it's the Atomic Energy Agency.
The President nods his head; someone will cut it off, feel the blade
against the neck snapping, sinking the brainless mass back into the spine,
he's got a filthy head. Oh, you already know that when I'm running it's
crazy, my head presses into my toes, my head presses so hard, they will
flay my skin, take my eyes, someone else had better look at this
landscape, there's a hole in my head.