a common bond for disruption
"A Common Bond for Disruption," January 20, 2022 (#20)
title from Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973)
Eden by Stanislaw Lem (1958)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1985)
one line from Cheer 1.3, "Blood, Sweat and Cheers" (2020)
A Common Bond for Disruption
We've lost all sense of time.
What the church calls love is actually
varied. In any case, we couldn't make out
anything fancy, just cornets and wafers, covered
in the beam of the Chemist's flashlight.
“What do you do about the flames?’ we asked.
The doubler looked at the drawings on the blackboard and
there was a ripple of dissent among the crowd.
A fiery cloud rose, and the air blurred around it.
I don’t know what they did in there, but it didn’t matter;
if there's a bad apple, it's gotta go.
The head and shoulders towering above
all due to meet under the tower
grazed it, but the material, softened by the heat, gave
'proof from her own lips,’ screamed
straight to the library, which
could play pop too, guitar and up tempo beat,
as if it had never been a pile of broken pieces.
photo (1-20-22) of image from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (1995)
photo (12-31-21) of image from The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb (2009)
photo (1-20-22) of image from The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (1995)
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