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i have no idea about 2008.
because i think the absolute worst of bush, and because i think that his re-election, if it happens--which appears likely, to my horror---will unleash the most right tendencies that the first term had kept in check to some extent---i find it difficult to imagine what level of damage bush will be able to do.
damage in the supreme court.
damage economically
damage politically
damage in terms of foreign policy.
but i do feel slipping away that slight degree of hope for the states that i had maintained for years.
and that is far more difficult to process that i would have imagined, had i allowed myself to imagine it.
it is like watching someone you love set themselves on fire
and you are unable to do anything but watch.
and while that person is burning, you ask yourself "what about next time"?
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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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