Overview

The piece opens:

“Engine hum, conversational roar, scraping undercarriages, competing loudspeakers, squealing brakes, shouts, touts, taunts, big-bang backfire, dumpster dents & clanging.”

Among its named sections or movements are Cold sober light of a prisonyard watchtower., I’ve got distinct playground memories — five, six years old?, Stab ‘em the first day in., HERE IT COMES., You dress strange., ███████ STUFFED TOY GUTS ███████.

Form and structure

10 displayed headings break the piece into shifts of register or movement.

Selected quotations

Corpus fingerprint

Source footprint: approximately 1,713 words · 1 image element · 0 embedded-media elements · 13 heading elements.

Strong lexical motifs: Eyes, Looking & Witness · Camera, Image & Frame · Children, Parents & Inheritance · Death, Ghosts & Posthumousness · Mouth, Voice & Utterance.

Nearby publications:Perfect Information Endureth to the End (Billions Burn in Hell)   ·   No Music On

Structure and contents

Publication footprint: approximately 1,838 words · 1 image element · 0 embedded-media elements · 13 distinct heading markers.

Visible structural markers

  • SKIP IT ALL COMPLAINTS AGAIN
  • parodic disembodiment
  • Cold sober light of a prisonyard watchtower.
  • Here’s the playbook:
  • I’ve got distinct playground memories — five, six years old?
  • Stab ‘em the first day in.
  • HERE IT COMES.
  • You dress strange.
  • ███████ STUFFED TOY GUTS ███████
  • MIMESIS ,
  • I’ll make one very explicit:
  • if only for their own reward or understanding.
  • YOU CAN! —

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Publication

Published 2022-08-05. Read the original publication ↗