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Finally, Aristotle’s
kin, kind, and brethren

have emitted an aghast sound
and admitted
to certain fissures,
(as exhausted and worn down as they are now)
certain fissures
certain cracks
in the empiric and static nature of nature
or in the existence of such at all.

I’ll tell you,
It happened like this:
I followed them defeated

as they dragged themselves out of the water
as streamers of pink effluvium
half floss, half bodily fluid
slipped from their bodies and
back into the dark socket
of that glacial pond
where we had been performing all afternoon.

They went across the rocks
following a little boy
--Aristotle himself I assume—and I followed them
until we came to a place where the grasses of the dune
lay down as if a pregnant animal had rested there.
We paused, and into this clearing came
a tiny fox
soft, clean, beautiful but
Eyeless,
nothing but flat fur
where his black “buttons” should be
he turned his head as if to look at me
but could only aim the flat planes on either side of his snout
towards that which he hoped could be seen

Farcical really, how it only took one small flaw
in the façade
to crack ‘em
to shake ‘em
send ‘em running into towers,
cursing nature like grackles, knocking their shins and elbows
on every conclusive angle they could break
stamping all the little white star-shaped flowers we call
“bluets”
into sharp-smelling hash and
As they finally went running up the hill towards the last standing shack

I wanted to seize each one of them
as iron-clad and aesthetic as Les Bourgeois de Calais
and hold them and kiss them
as if they were my own grandfathers.

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from Any Size Mirror is a Dictator (Unmastered), released February 1, 2015

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Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is unbounded by discipline or field, we collect ourselves around processes, theorizing social systems, ideological structures, modes of production, and epistemic genealogies via actions, relational constructs, images, noise, text, interactions, and objects. ... more

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