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i hear that...i just watched obama's curious televised pep talk about the gulf. i may have been hallucinating but i would swear he said something about 90% of the oil being captured within like a month. i am entirely unclear how that is to happen given the reality that appears to be unfolding but it's obvious that we don't know in some basic ways what's going on. besides, we are assured that the boys in the lab are on the case and that it's a really swell lab and lots of smart people are walking purposively about.
but really, i don't know what i expected him to say.
i thought in a sense the entirely tenor of the pep talk absurd, all the military metaphors and references to world war 2 and such.
but i don't know what i would have said. i don't know what i expected him to say---what? that the Leader is personally doing many things and Knows about Many Other Things all of which are happening and there are Plans and these Plans are being Implemented somewhere.
references to shrimp fishing.
references to god.
i dont know what i expected but this clearly was not it.
criminy.
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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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