Susan Gevirtz – from MEASURE: Memorandum Drum

Susan Gevirtz

from MEASURE: Memorandum Drum

Dragnet Voltage Voltage  No identifiable bite marks Voltage Workers drag the bottom of exhaustion Voltage Inborn ear perhaps velocity shed weight V  “that by which we are no longer able to be able” – Blanchot V Livid city red cross V Come   #    Here     #      Oren                              Beg                        plunder in Ramallah V Home again home again but then V Livid city ellipse City caesura City pause hesitation lacunae Metropolis masturbation = mourning                  in a little box bed                  echo demo so        a way to miss / tryst of worst                          a little wend way shed Voltage Foreshade accompany that body                              Water of sewage drank                 Water of all the seas from deduce                      one member/we given/under Statement as testament of offers the speaker a momentary respite from supplement                               Water scourge sank                             waker of the seas                             of all the seen              worker                                                      oh all across                                                    oh accursed the darkened                                                      accused Voltage Quadrangle refusal                 TRAILER               sated square     Oh                       what was his name                        wasn’t there          I was younger by then                                             all the gates                             curfew                                   a salted measure                ten years later            time hasn’t had                          it’s day [1st anniversary of Rodney King verdict, broadcast 10 yrs later]                       Underwater Sound                                              Got light                                   not bought but as means of occurence                                           means means of occurence more paraphernalia for distant proximity:        cam camera           sister suicide bomber The future you asked about is a square torn out      of the center of gold and orange money for the dead            no smog   no weather They stand on a land of magnet dirt under     Overpass Cognate       [rebate]                                                 entry gratified                                                        granted  /                                                                     /                                                                         that we

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