Just for a Thrill: Poems

Conditions of Artificial Scarcity

CONDITIONS OF ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY a very strong but limited boundary an isolate (what’s the word?) obliterates! —lives somewhere with someone who also lives somewhere & returns to the somewhere where they were living— sees the force as essentially disappearable its points of origin explicitly theorized in conditions of artificial scarcity alongside the impulse to redistribute 98 * now the war has “ended” there is no clarity victory: something vile in nature inherent wickedness is not pressured sleepless shadows pull the doll apart in an oddly familiar demobilization which cannot be cured abandon all interest in the present & the future egos demand adaption at all costs: multiple collections the facts in dispute—screen memories not usefulness— the object can be repaired time & time again what is certain is the need for heroism 99 * 1. The forty-year war. 2. Two hundred & fifty thousand dead. 3. Seventy thousand amputees. 4. Two million land mines. 5. Lost limbs? None for you. 100 * everyone is subject to an increase or a decrease of these forces proper rituals must be accomplished the integrative events are very close your English is excellent we don’t talk about unknown things the problem of pre-figuration 101 ...