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feeding the jones a bit....
i have to say that this format is not making me terribly happy--i write in a way that uses the distance provided by the other journal format as a frame-assumption--here i feel a fly against a windshield on the freeway (a paraphrase--wish it was my line)....nothing seems to work right.
anyway
across a hopelessly strange birthday weekend, one fascinating, bizarre object floated to me--this book:
"russian criminal tattoo encylopedia" by danzig baldaev et al. (gottingen: steidel/fuel, 2001)
it is like seeing the edge of a huge, dark, slowly turning, largely vanished galaxy, the elements of which are drawn onto people's bodies.
amazing, fascinating, disturbing, pornographic, offensive, hilarious, desperately sad.
cant recommend this highly enough as a window and as a jolt.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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