Causeway

for Charles

Enlightenment philosophy
returns to explain

why revolutions are never
revolutions, but are closed

teleologies because they bleed
outside the body. Sacrifice

is legion in all forms of
community to which we are

bound. To feel good and fuck
your neighbor is

the byword, just ask Jacques
Derrida, Cardinal

Richelieu, the Sorbonne
and Harvard University

how it is that aesthetic
theory speaks much of

the common worker
to appropriate her

eventual destruction
unwittingly by her own labor

to his own term for
graduated beauty, like

the Mushadin Mahdin method
of total mistranslation,

one man, one vote, the ultimate
wagering lie. Algerian

fundamentalists learned from
fascist DeGaulle how best

to maim their opponents
and passed these secrets on

to the IDF to fortify
their campaign against

their Palestinians. Proximity
kills, defined out of

the measured distances of
Lacan, Deleuze, Guattari

and the like. The possible
for man is only possible now

because it has become
inevitable, trading skulls

for theory, life for its own
means, paying the cost

to know everything
for naught, but that

at least we can
all die clean.


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