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In a House Subcommittee on Electronic Surveillance
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I N A H O U S E S U B C O M M I T T E E O N E L E C T R O N I C S U R V E I L L A N C E It would be lovely to ask water to investigate domestic spying so i put myself in a trance right here in Congress holding a bottle of h2o from California so when the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General reads probable cause to believe the water shakes its curly geyser brain & when he says need to close the gaps it shakes times 3 until its letters break & splash to the floor of the Rayburn Building ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh-ohh ohh-ohh during the report about reading your e-mail. Maybe it’s not your e-mail. From the 2nd row it’s possible to see white ridges in his thumbnails while he holds surveillance has to be reasonable as the prong-prong molecules <<<< of water trickle through the carpet to find the vault where the Electronic $urveillance Modernization Act, the Terrorist $urveillance Act, the National $ecurity $urveillance Act & the Foreign Intelligence $urveillance Improvement & Enhancement Act are stashed to hide them from the mobs of 1772. There’s a secret in every act down there. i hear some water interview the ants who make the basic laws of the land & while the Deputy reads ferret out terrorists the water interviews a ferret under Capitol Mall that can’t quite 4 8 streamline operations in the ruddy soil. Perspective is gained; the trance method seems to be working well. i can see half a heart in each Congressman; i can see the Deputy has a shaving cut & a sunbeam shining through the skin of his left ear, it’s feeling rather prone, the light, its pink the color of winter robins’ legs that makes me want not to hate him. It’s the tendency of light to change itself. He probably has two kids & lives in Fairfax near where Whitman’s mockingbird spends winters; he was sprinkled with birth, his death floats near the secrets he can’t read. There’s a clue in every word down there. When he says has to be reasonable the droplets splash their skinny necks & swelling Buddha bellies & break to make capitol hill spell i toll or top al ill. You at home, what do you feel. You can vote by calling 1-900-it’s-either-too-fuckinglate -or-too-early. There’s a secret in every century that likes it if you shout. There is time for our little secret. There is space for the secret spilling out. 4 9 ...