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Calle Reine Sofia, upper left corner of the map
He shuffles between rooms. Every room has a television monitor and on every monitor flicker images of rocket attacks on Gaza. In some rooms, these images occupy a thirteen inch square: in others they occupy a significant area of wall.
If he measures his cadence correctly, he can follow images of the dead as if the path along which they are being moved tracks from his bedroom to his office.
Everywhere the sound is off.
This is a decorative carnage.
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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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