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The subjunctive mood
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By the pool, aloe on my sunburnt skin, naphthalene fractions on the leeward wind: when the sanctions lifted, we rushed into the breach. The revolution is dead. We are the afterbirth, children of exile swamping the beach, an image of home we'd never seen. A map too coarse to see all the detail as we return again. Give me my terminal lassitude, shimmering with fever: a life in the subjunctive mood. With no eye for detail at once I can see whose benefit all this is for. My image of home: no fields clogged with marabu, overwhelming my eyes with the heat and detail, rereading eighties Didion...
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In Borneo
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Before the discovery down by the river's edge, we were the prospectors closing in. Pink diamond, black diamond, underground for millions of years, formed in the pressure of our parents' fears: my kiss will be light, sweet, and crude. Everyone follow me to Busang, by the river's edge. Jetsam on the surface that we'll skim... Pink diamond, black diamond, subducted for billions of years, how could we rise to the surface unflawed?
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Anni di piombo
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If you were the heir to a fortune from drying meat, curing and salting, could you renounce the wages of flesh? By you I mean me, unfettered and free, a shot in the sky away from the garden. Black sedan, red star: hear my prayer as we descend into Rome as it burns. On the radio, my parents intone they won't make a scene if I change my mind. But by now we're beneath the stars, glimmering in the stagflated sky. I lift my lips from the breast. Black sedan, red star: hear my prayer as we descend into Rome as it burns. Not kidnapped or starved, but escaping with the luck that I've earned. Unfettered and free in a world like me in its unintegrated desires.
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