the Resistance

[Alan Sondheim]

the Resistance


the Resistance gave meaning to history
every word a password
real political economy of language
we long for those times
every word possessed a body
every body harbored the scent of death
every body breathed its last forever
those were the times

(now history carries no meaning, we're lost, causes split, fragment,
holarchic tendrils of power carry on in spite of everything, they're
evanescent. but we remember the days of the Resistance when our lives
had meaning and the world was impetuous and full of danger.)


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