In the rapt inertia of this posture,
I neglect the impunity of my civilizational other
for your furniture, for your teeth.

This secures me from the dread of savages.
I mean of human shape; I mean of this urn world , where you are
my vivid fringe, my ordered subject; and the moment of
nation is kissing; and the ring of the massacre is fishing
for the fashion of godly.
 


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