an ensemble of equals
"An Ensemble of Equals," January 21, 2022 (#21)
title from The Abstinence Teacher by Tom Perrotta (2007)
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (2005)
The History of Sexuality (Vol. 1) by Michel Foucault (1978)
two lines from "The Healer" by Aimee Bender (1998)
An Ensemble of Equals
The letter arrived in the mail with no return address.
Educators designed projects which they submitted to the authorities.
And yet. There was no answer.
The new procedures of power that were devised
when it seemed the sun was going to come out
were subject to this rule of rules, one guaranteed
twice as powerful and twice everything
as he slipped the key into his lock,
regarded as a specific right that was manifested with
a siren sounded in the distance.
With the juridical organization of loss of
this time it had been necessary to rise to the material.
The neglect of everything that makes for its productive effectiveness
waited for something to happen, but nothing did. No wind
establishes any connection between power and sex that is not
yes, because what was I supposed to say:
Poof--just like that, each equalized the other
merely to construct counterarguments that are symmetrical and
in some places the writing was illegible. But the name
does not appear to be the way things actually happened.
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