Here Is My Propaganda One One One One Oneing On Your Forehead Like Droplets of Luminous Sin

Monologue is the grid except to say, as you try to imagine what would have happened had J6 been an attack on the capitol by black men try to imagine what would happen if George Soros was now combing through government computer programs deciding whether keeping you alive cost efficient. I'm going outside to play. Exene turned seventy yesterday and once upon a time X (who in one of the three best concerts of my lifetime burned Ontario Theater to the ground, burned it to the ground) was considered one of best, most important and influential bands in the world, youngsters

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☝	Today's monologue						☟
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V. Here Is My Propaganda One One One One Oneing On Your Forehead Like Droplets of Luminous Sin

Anne Carson

Like many a wife I boosted the husband up to Godhood and held him there.

What is strength?

Opposition of friends or family merely toughens it.

I recall my mother’s first encounter with him.

Glancing

at a book I’d brought home from school with his name inscribed on the flyleaf

she said

I wouldn’t trust anyone who calls himself X—and

something exposed itself in her voice,

a Babel

thrust between us at that instant which we would never

learn to construe—

taste of iron.

Prophetic. Her prophecies all came true although she didn’t

mean them to.

Well it’s his name I said and put the book away. That was the first night

(I was fifteen)

I raised my bedroom window creak by creak and went out to meet him

in the ravine, traipsing till dawn in the drenched things

and avowals

of the language that is “alone and first in mind.” I stood stupid

before it,

watched its old golds and lieblicher blues abandon themselves

like peacocks stepping out of cages into an empty kitchen of God.

God

or some blessed royal personage. Napoleon. Hirohito. You know

how novelist Ōe

describes the day Hirohito went on air and spoke

as a mortal man. “The adults sat around the radio

and cried.

Children gathered in the dusty road and whispered bewilderment.

Astonished

and disappointed that their emperor had spoken in a voice.

Looked at one another in silence. How to believe God had

become human

on a designated summer day?” Less than a year after our marriage

my husband

began to receive calls from [a woman] late at night.

If I answered [she]

hung up. My ears grew hoarse.

How are you.

—

No.

—

Maybe. Eight. Can you.

—

The white oh yes.

—

Yes.

What is so ecstatic unknowable cutthroat glad as the walls

of the flesh

of the voice of betrayal —yet all the while lapped in talk more dull

than the tick of a clock.

A puppy

learns to listen this way. Sting in the silver.

Ōe says

many children were told and some believed that when the war was over

the emperor would wipe away their tears

with his own hand.