nightmare placed at the end

[Alan Sondheim]

nightmare placed at the end

of dreaming then working back towards the dream
of human hatred then there's a moment of total extinction
hieroglyphics of love and war
americans and the prison of abu ghraib
they'll tear it down to be sure
i reduced with sorensen and down to 5 frames a second
   and still it's 22 megabytes
that's the problem with it
the bulk of witnessing, no matter how distorted
   you can just about make out the face and its expressions
they're nameless
it's still the bulk of witnessing
i took a break from war and went and made these pieces
i just took a break and worked on something else
i'm back and writing this with these pieces
they were placed at the beginning, i edited
i placed them at the end

http://www.clc.wvu.edu/sondheim/files/warlove.jpg
http://www.clc.wvu.edu/sondheim/files/abughr.mov

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