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 3. be where it’s heating up. Or not. Under or over / outside your window pounding cement and scaffolding. In the mind’s kitchen. Heart’s dressing room. In Berlin. It’s where you’ve been. Map of every place your feet have sited. All the wheres happening at once: dark when you’re in light / Australian winter when you’re summering / death gasp / birth heave / even desire’s rave or leave (crave or peeve?). Not wherefore which means why but the here and there that makes you move or string up wires / satellites to talk between. Today the suicide bomber hit Patt Junction in south Jerusalem. Razor wire / ditches / walls / sensors going up for 225 miles to separate Jew from Arab so there is a here and over there / a not here. Where is the reason (almost) for every war. Call it Kashmir. Call it Jerusalem. Texas. Call it Basque. What is your where? Do you sell wares there? Wear your hair covered there? I claim the territory of your heart your throat. Anywhere is not somewhere. Nowhere is where you’ll vanish in the when of not yet. Be distant. Play in the other where of elsewhere. Before you move into back when. ...

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