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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: SIREN and SCREAMS
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:56:14 -0500 (EST)
SIREN and SCREAMS http://www.alansondheim.org/SIREN.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/SIREN.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/SCREAMS.mp3 (erhu) There are codes in the sirens in the night, there are codes in the answering screams, the screams in the future anterior, the shuffling of the sirens into silence. Too often, architecture betrays the indentation of the body; splatter semiotics creates semiotic shards, codewords emanating into violence, coalesced into communities of brawn and the tools of brawn. I have heard witnesses and fear for my life. I fear for the lives of others, anyone else as such, stigmatized by headgear, insignia, skin and its others histories. Others ourselves, denounced as things, as perturbable things whose tongues, still speaking, devolve into noise, cut out at the root, expelled. The worst of it is, we are become never among ourselves, always rusted, our bones and books scattered. This is happening and will happen. This is concrete, this is not assimilated, cauterized, sutured. The scab is always removed for the proof of alien skin beneath. Do not mistake the trajectory or the time we inhabit, we are soon gone from it. There are others who hurry us along the way. Some of us fall. Some of us are trampled, kicked in the head, what passes now for military justice. Justice is not law, law is not justice, not now, not otherwise. The mouth is wedged open, teeth broken. That tongue, our tongue, our native, gone. There are sirens and screams. There are others sitting down for dinner. The oven is warm, the house well-heated. The comfort is in the plants on the sill of the window. 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