Inevitable as a one car pileup,
sun rises and sets by waiting
for the whole earth to move.

At this speed, there is no doubt
the driver will lose control.
No one will think

to audit luck in dust
settling, all that matters
for survival, all that matters

for survivors building the same world
they always do from memory. What else
could account for it?

The city is sitting at the table
making lists of what to do
for Armageddon, an endless

meeting, waiting for the end of the world,
rising with every revolution. Memory is
the matter of production. Waiting is

the means. It is
in the hands of those who work
it, those who work around it.

Mao was half right. If you want to know
theory and method, take it, take
all of it in a body of memory.

SS

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poetry by Christopher (Kit) Kelen and Steven Schroeder | images by Kit Kelen