Clodette says that the war with China has already begun. She says that it’s just a matter of time before Russia is involved too. The whole thing will last decades, she says, maybe centuries, and will ultimately determine the course of the new era. She cannot, unfortunately, be more precise in her forecasts. There are certain key events that remain hazy or just beyond the scope of her inner vision.
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Leathery Flesh
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I like to act like vestibule has collapsed
no entrance to this head
im just one walking phallus
hugging furry monks wishing that they were naked
fat women (little women) (puny women) (old men touching women on the subway)
no hair,
It’s the second-person thoughts, talking to you, talking in you, talking you into death with economics. A cost-benefit analysis of your life vs. your death. Leave something behind, more than your life gives. Save what could’ve been, your unknowns, before they’re gone. That old man has more of a future than you do. And he’s dying in a lawn chair.
We sat outside in foldout lawn chairs, drinking Buds,
“921” marks the date of the second-largest earthquake in Taiwan’s recorded history. On September 21st, 1999, at 1:47 a.m., an earthquake struck near Nantou, in central Taiwan. Within seconds, a series of 7.3 tremors released the equivalent of 40 atomic bombs of energy, which radiated out to every corner of the island. The writer Man-chuan Chang described her experience at the first jolt: “The shuddering building made shrieking sounds as if it were ready to collapse at any moment.