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KIT FRYATT
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- Trying to get home before the silence
- because mandated grief is impossible
- as mandated mourning repellent and
- which the authorities want us to do or
perform unclear [edit] Want to get home,- because to mourn one is to mourn all (is
that
- right?) and makes of mourning perpetual.
- Mourning cannot be always though grief
may:
- terrible turning to say or hold nothing.
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- Tense forgetting people may not remember
- to stop, looking up, as if idling, pull
- over their cars. Instead of observing the
- silence they might merely be watching it,
- or thinking of a locution pertinent
- rather to the last silence but one than
- this, including
a woman pregnant with twins,
- a curious obeisance to nothing
- to do with that or this silence, or with
grief.
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- Can we grieve the unknown, without making
- of them soldiers and other
abstractions?—I
- think that’s a dreadful thing to do
to a
- person. Were you also trying to get home
- before the silence / you might have
glimpsed, from
- the top deck of a bus, hidden fora, sites
- of our cosmic childhoods, populated
- by those discrete, distracted. Poised and
utter
- as kouroi, they are thresheld, fleeting,
mute.
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- The first breath is air, the second fire,
the third,
- if it comes, a gluey admixture of
- ash and fat. Kneel down in the charnel,
in the
- field of stelae or, as our nation calls
- them, "sky-people". He had an olive skin. The
- bus opened up like splitting an olive.
- Unless we learn that we are in the world
but
- the reverse is wholly untrue, there will
- be no silence in grieving, only quiet
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