regulation

after watching road to guantanamo a few days ago–
here, thin grey trees gather in mist again
on hillsides of pale november under still threads of rain.
large eyes, colour washed:
they cower with narrow limbs eaten by oxygen,
like waiting crowds in spared photos of the holocaust.
it is november, and we are weary
of the year’s unravellings that famish hope,
starvation’s [...]

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after samhain(, and a late happy birthday)

(edited, from last week.)
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remember remember what was last year’s november.
i just watched the video called “i am a muslim” at zacharia’s site. and. i do want to applaud it, because all criticisms aside it is a good effort at combatting bigotry and prejudices, and the other day i bought edward said’s covering islam: how the [...]

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isaidicanexplainshesaidiknow

yesterday returned to the sketching of harsh words onto the bare wall in front of me. until, an hour later, desperately shook off the drawing inertia and propelled myself outside into the chill autumn air, followed the asphalt along country roads through dark spruce forests interspersed with white birchbark trunks, walked and walked until i [...]

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obligatario

november fourth. the second snowfall of winter.
paul feyeraband once claimed that classical greek tragedy was at once “a factual account of social conditions with a criticism of these conditions and the suggestion for an alternative.” but this statement does not allow for the possibility that tragedy (like pain itself) may be actively lived as a [...]

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