Carol Mirakove

from FUCK THE POLIS
 Los Angeles, California: 1999–2001

 

drop your weapons.

luminescent chains what the mourning sun incinerates the
strata to the south — “this is one low-ass ceiling.” i just / don’t
trust ‘em / flesh / accident / shake·on·it eastside eastside up
eastside

I read that downtown there are 28,000 “garment” (sweatshop)
workers.

the, or to kiss it each & deem it naked. print & faint the
quotations. out of context, the “should be reproduceable by
anyone” fantasy. what about those urban fires? ok the buildings
but who was in them.

hallucination pines & allow me to couch: these replies with
pangs of “freedom.”
an aside: why one is not very useful. a smoke-filled alley as it
regrets, being hidden, remaining, “since we suffer” /
the privilege             being borne into a race

centered ears window up winding tramps & so it would come
down to quantitative? couldn’t the equation work, conversely? I
mean, isn’t that a kantian ethic? I mean, minus the class. a
gross question. issues that when I hear “remnant,” I think,
what luxury. cut up as such. to sit in an evening
                                                                  dictee
                                               "my teeth"

bitter intersection surplus take me too, trans-shock & imagine
to flora. there are right ways to make room for sleep yet I
mailed you not one & thus I am mortified. the whole smacks,
extinguish to revisit

I feel this is consistent: with

 

the polis

:: attested

that the polis would develop in consequence of colonization,
that splitting, central to the concept. losing its autonomy would
not — neighbor — the splitting in the archaic period.

she says. “I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d
rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”

kitten. lapse. milk. saucer. in the shower

“conurbation (walled or unwalled) and whenever”

religion versus polis. religion versus a sense of town. religion
versus aesthetic. religion versus anti-religion. religion versus
free to be. religion versus greed what a hoot. there are so
many ways in which to be greedy / versus adequate, which is
to say effective          rendering

once, i read an article about african mathematicians having
established fractal patterns in the construction of their villages.
but they weren’t very quick to publish, & no sale, then, it goes /
to europe / another / dommage.

such a map that would reveal.

 “because you are”          “despite your name”

“what time is it”       “I’ll slap” [you]

ok “this [isn’t] Easter” —

marginalia: Faulkner [for example] doesn’t allow Dilsey to
discover the consciousness we want / to see.

he loaded himself monotonously: you luster: like cattle in the
rain

 

:: frankpledge

 

“I don’t mean”          “answered.. question.” “I can” & get a job.
charles points out that serving as an over-producer is as bad as
if not worse than being an over / consumer.

which is to say of social obligation, and what that might entail,
remembering that description need not be stifling. “or even a
fantasy etymology”

the epic and the tragic were becoming increasingly hard to
release

charles too studied the etymology of polis and found that it
comes from pelt, which comes from peel, which comes from
skin. SKIN OF STATE. thanks charles.

"which also means [ /] "fortress"

 “the substitution”          goes, unexplained

 

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