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[Alan Sondheim]

once it happened it was everywhere
that we were unprepared, incontestable
flesh-pillar that transformed differently
from other transformations in the long sleep

we had been accustomed and customary
now mathematical tensor calculates describes
the torsion of indiscernibles
so that we might not speak or be spoken for
so that we might not be spoken of

or silenced in everybody's differend
the killing is over there on the other block
our destiny
there were descriptors within which bad memory

baits peaks just beneath the surface