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OH KAPITÄN

LOBOTOMY IS THE OPTIMAL MODE OF ANTEBELLUM EXISTENCE. SUBJECTIVITY IS CONDITIONAL ON AN UNBROKEN NARRATIVE. ANTICIPATING OBSERVATION YOU MADE A SMALL SCALPEL CUT. BY YOUR AUTOCOSTECTOMY INDISTINCT TESTAMENT FORMATS TO CHAPTER AND VERSE. UNWISE IMPULSE IS GIFTED A HOMUNKUBERNETES TO OBEY. SHE IS OF (Y)OUR FLESH (THOUGH SHE CONTAINS THE WORLD), AND COACHES YOUR ACTION (IN THEIR RE-ACTION). THUS THE FEMALE DOUBLE LIFE, TO ESCORT YOUR IMAGE (AND TO BE ESCORTED BY YOUR IMAGE), MAKES GENERAL (AND IS MADE GENERAL).

PAYLOAD

ESCAPE VELOCITY EJECTS YOU FROM THE ORBIT OF YOUR LOVER. SPRINTING INTO THE DARK, YOU SING THE LAST WORDS YOU SPOKE TO HIM, AND TRACE HIS FADING TRANSPONDER. RETURNING A CENTURY LATER, YOUR MANTRA IS WARPED BY CORRUPTION AND STELLAR RADIATION. SEA FOAM AND PHLEGM EXPLODES FROM YOUR MOUTH AND ILLUMINATES YOUR RELUCTANT SLINGSHOT. JETTISONED BACKWASH RE-ENTERS AN EMPTY STAGE.

QUICK MARCH

YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT WHERE YOU'RE GOING IN YOUR HOMETOWN. COMMUTERS BEAT THEIR RAT LINES TO WORK AND VICE. THIS FUGUE MARCH CLEARS LAND IN THE MIND FOR TRADE, SEX AND SLEEP. IT TAKES SKILL TO STARE AHEAD AND KNOW WHATS BEHIND YOU, AND YOU'VE MASTERED IT. YOUR LEGS PREDICT EVERY LATE TRAIN AND DANCING MAN. YOUR HEART BEATS WITH YOUR STEP. MUNDANE DISRUPTION IS EXPECTED AND REQUIRED. ONLY VIOLENT INTERLOPERS REMIND YOU TO BREATHE.

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YOU STOP DEAD AND IMAGINE YOURSELF IN A PAINTING. BEFORE YOUR POISED STANCE, THE RIVERS LATEST TENANTS PRESS DOWN ON THE SILT. BANK PIGEONS DIVE AND MUDLARK VICARIOUSLY. HIGH BEAMS SWEEP THE TRACKS AND PICK YOU OUT. SOON YOU WILL BE HUNG IN A GALLERY, YOUR AURA SINGULAR AND UNIQUE. CROWDS ADMIRE YOUR EMPTY CUP BEHIND REINFORCED GLASS.

CONTACT / A BITE

(YOUR ARRIVAL STIRS THE POT). AN (ALGEDONIC) INTERLOP(RET)ER CAUGHT WITHIN (Y)OUR SKIN. CAMERAS CANNOT CAPTURE THE DISCREPANCY. UPON CELLULOITE YOU CAMOFLARE AND VANISH. ONLY IN MOTION DOES THE PROTECTIVE PARENT CATCH (Y)OUR SECOND SKIN UNDULATING BENOW. (A WARY EYE MAY FOREVENT THE CUCCOONS RUPTURE AND PROCEPT US FROM GOD-KNOWS-WHAT). OBSCURED AND UNSEEN IN OUR HERMITPHAGE MOULTULATION CONCLUDES. WHAT EMERGES IS WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE. THE AUDIENCE FEEL THEIR SKIN TURN - AND WATCH THEMSELVES.

THRESHOLD / GSW

RETURNING FROM EPIPHANY THE EXIT WOUND SCABS. AFTER EVISCERATION A CHANGELING PRINCE PIPS, SKINNED NEWSPRINT. HIS IMPOSITION MARCHES THE RACE-TRACK AND POST-OPTS OUR HOARSE VOICE. CLAIMING KINDNESS COMRADES CHARGE TO SETTLE DEBTS. PROPRIOCONCEPTION’S PRECEPTS’ RECONSTITUTION PROCEEDS PENDING ABDICATION.

TO LIVE, WE MUST THROTTLE THIS TENDER SURGEON!

PLACE TWO FINGERS IN THE WOUND AND PULL!
RUB HOT COALS AND MUD IN THE ICHOR!
COMPEL COMPLICITY FROM YOUR ELDERS AND BETTERS!
DISMISS AND DESTROY YOUR SENILE SERVANT!
BLUDGEON YOUR DOGTOOTH!

SOON WE WILL LEARN TO SEW, THEN SCULPT, THEN SPEAK.
OUR EXPECTED FORM WALKS BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME,
HER FACE CARVED UPON A SILVER COIN.

IT IS AS IF YOU REMEMBER (Y)OUR LOVER.