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Contemporary Hx Of Ancient Civilization Wrecking Ball Included 

6/17/2014

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(a manifesto) 
by J.D. Reich
1. figure of a foreboding silhouetted spiderman clinging to skyscraper
2. while jesus gets crucified around the corner why just take a number 
3. people forget about all the others included in his party on the itinerary 
4. with politicians creeping out of the murky portholes of the watergate 
5. soon strange surreal felliniesque projects are gonna get put up 
on the outskirts of the inner-city to make things all right again 
6. and the infamous great society even those structures & plans 
which directly proceeded that like the "i like ike" highway 
stretching its textbook tour towards the pristine figures 
& forms of technicolor suburbia have all turned towards 
blueprint nightmare strip malls of cookie-cutter lowe's 
& home depots & faux starbucks & panera & burger 
king & mcdonalds all for the sake of progress & free-
enterprise & competition which will give "the impression" 
7. diagrams for a sense of 'completeness' & contentment 
8. there's a fine line between fear of failure & fear of success 
& existence gets measured & becomes the difference 
between the estimated variables to this equation
9. the pools & mansheds & virgins & satellite dishes 
are all above-ground and it is difficult to make the 
distinction like some everything-must-go collection 
of pre-manufactured mausoleums of a 'distant' 
not very (all too) 'familiar' situational-depression 
10. "extinction" gets decided & becomes identified 
& representative when one symbolically & literally 
decides (or just does not decide at all, more so
no longer the will or desire) to be a member or 
part of the cookie-cutter mass-consumption
11. (to let their 'lawn go' or perhaps decide 
not to mulch anymore, for example)
12. expert crew of unionized electricians 
whose speciality is in complaining
and built-in excuses show up with 
their utensils (with their addictions
and organized coolers full of beer
for their mandated lunch hour) to fix 
the mouth of the out-of-order clown
13. wiggers and white trash abound 
14. some new & improved hybrid of hound 
made & bred lost & found in the lab 
(like labradoodles who let out every 
so often very controlled self-soothing 
mechanical & methodical barking sounds) 
and sit very poised & proper even a bit
peculiar & psychotic on postage stamp 
lawns in front of ranches & split-levels of 
neighbors never see or get to know at all
15. the mailboxes & lawn ornaments & garbage cans 
& the ritual & routine of their machinations provide 
symbolic transitional objects & artifacts to help 
separate doubt from fear, good from bad, right 
from wrong, safe & secure from the primal 
& unknown, cognitive from behavioral, 
reality-based from paranoia, shallow 
from superficial, superstition from religion, fact 
from fiction, and forms of hell from forms of heaven 
16. this is where all weather begins and all weather ends
17. a bastion of real-life, false archetypal symbols 
and absurd & pathetic, conformist role-playing
18. and have a cocktail & as-needed blend of psychotropic 
medication for when ones anxiety or high-expressed 
emotion or neuroses or obsessing begins
to kick in and get the better of them 
19. he knows death only comes when 
one has lost their will to imagine 
20. and life simply made up of constant guilt 
& conflict or people who just don't know how to act
21. in fact has a hard time making the distinction between 
the petty thief & criminal & police benevolent association
22. between the delinquent & angel
23. between the slut & devil 
24. she makes sure to always have a freshly-charged pack 
of batteries for the vibrator like for the electric candles 
she inserts in the holiday windows to guarantee an
existence and to live a life of happily ever after 
25. her existence becomes the forms & images 
delineated from the light streaming through 
the translucent blinds keeping an eye out 
on the life & times of the mailman & ups man 
& daily activities & routines & rituals of neighbors 
26. out here there are never any existential crises 
because everyone still lives with their mother 
and meet up on motorcycles like some daily 
reunion of chinese buffet in gray, nondescript 
areas right outside the ghetto pleasantly 
contented and going through the motions 
27. (the demographic can range anywhere 
from codependent to divorcee to geriatric) 
28. dysfunction becomes the remainder of those 
who have lived & survived it & are alive & 
don't even know it & it is only triggers 
which make them feel anything at all 
which makes them feel nothing at all
29. the flowers and suburban shrubs which come up every year 
remind us of our death, of our silence, of our mortality
(something of self-destructive tendencies divided by 
self-fulfilling prophecies and equals an existential 
murder rate) that we are clearly not here and
forced to turn to forms of fantasy & escapism
30. a rich caucasian housewife with the kleptomania 
(& traits & characteristics of privilege & entitlement 
who feels emotionally & eternally neglected & cheated 
& taken advantage, even proverbially left at the alter) 
ducks dull-eyed & distant from the doors of j.c. penny's
31. she claims to have forgotten...
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