Full Foreground

An establishment containing such a furnace

38 An establishment containing such a furnace stoked in keeping with the authorities to show me these projects are plausible, I mean short of marching in pairs to provide a sense of homeland or nation state—or else this must be some kind of a joke about the confidence in a personality that will coax you from disdain or indifference, an altered voice into so much sexual activity involving wet gels and latex, groove or slot into which some part of an arrangement of parts may suit my identity to say of any assertion, it’s a failure, and a good thing I made so many mistakes in the translation by dogs pulled to pieces, your glasses full, our bodies cricking. So be it. The matter pliable and less a question of the contained, heretofore historical place by which incidence will wither whether hands testify to felt escape, apparatus for us to be here who make meaning a site of genuine labor at the thought of blank spaces of real stance indistinct of any discernible shape and no longer mine out of print as we fashion a flawless ledger for us respected citizens amid the throngs disabled by misgiving, patriotic anthems into lullabies, cradle song sleek for the purveyors of wellness, homes swelling with the complaint of victims and counsels at law to say nothing of commerce, first utterance or furtive decline, failed weather anywhere and the classless strain 39 of entirely missing the point, drinks nursed by friends in power, families proud among the sinister ranks who —because they draw parallels between physical traits and the alleged existence of an ethnic or racial group— may well take the argument to its logical conclusion and commit the same barbaric crime as those bureaucrats who during war and so forth in such appalling excitement it makes you shiver too close to the lower last dilation of the firm drag in stroke and wield along fold or fissure not elusive to darting points of tongue and orifice by deflect and contradiction. ...