I like the slippage of vocabulary(ies) here, Dominic
& the continuing anger....
good to see the series continuing....
Doug
On 8-Apr-10, at 2:00 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> UNDERSTAND LESS almost a Dadaist
> slogan, anarchist oppugnancy
> voicing the truth of power. Some are left
> as ghosts in their own lives, materialising
> under assumed names, ventriloquised by grief.
> Destruction is safer to contemplate than healing,
> I find, although my appetites are strange
> even to me: I cling to gallows-humour
> as others cleave to the cross. Cast CRUCIATUS
> and see vengeance realised, bowels frothing
> with boiling lead. You understand / condemn
> and either way are caught in an imposture,
> scrying closed-circuit footage, hearsay's undead
> certainties; the imagined reek of blood.
>
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