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The Detroit DHS
The sky is dark
& the castle behind is ominous. SCALE VARIES. This might be a good point to
look carefully at just what we mean by ‘the end of the world’. 80% of all
sickness in “developing” countries is linked to polluted water. Killers may
contact the victims’ family. Perspective of entitlement: “I want to do it, so I
will.” 2005: In Detroit, 42,000 families got their water cut off. Like a car
that was found locked & the kill switch had been set. Even a foot of moving
water can be enough to carry off a car. Even a sip can save a life. Water,
sanitation, hygiene. Every day more children die of waterborne disease than
aids, traffic accidents, malaria, & war put together. Why. The forked
stick, or divining rod, is usually shaped like the letter Y. By 2025, 2/3rds of
the population won’t have adequate access to clean water. Give me a reason why.
Water is traded on the NYSE, several dozen indexes. Smirking legal pads &
one full turn of the flag. The small eyes of a pocket gopher. Sloshing water
from the bags in their haste. The world’s most powerful bird of prey is the
10-20lb. harpy eagle. A series of short,
sharp, cheeping whistles: cheep, cheep; sounds annoyed. Giant plastic
beheaded eagle. Winds can blow dust from the Sahara Desert to the Southeastern
U.S. Dust devils a thousand feet high can cut across a desert floor. Desert
sand buried cities like how blood circulates left to right. It’s the direction
it has to go. Have to, have got to, it is
not possible, not mind, would like, can & will are linguistic accroutements to any grammar list. As are ability, possibility, probability,
willingness, invitation, request, permission. But the Pacific no longer
mixes with West-moving Atlantic waters in the Tropics, for instance, & bees
are dying in record numbers straight down off the sky with birds falling
alongside, dead. A thousand years from today. Or today. Date not marked. Somewhere inside, wondering how any of this could
be real. But, I suppose you know. You have always known. Symbolic thought
allows us to think abstractly, analyze the past, anticipate the future. Natural
phenomena require natural explanation. Something refractive you can understand.
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You can understand.
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Water is a liquid crystal with a
pliable lattice matrix that is capable of adopting many structural forms. It’s
how the world began. It’s how the world will end. Collapsible rubber globe.
Once you smell death you never forget death. The effects caused by parasitic
diseases range from mild discomfort to death. A lot of people would have a hard
time convicting without a body. I’m not one of them. Are you? The water in the
world’s oceans is held down by gravity which pulls everything toward the middle
of Earth. Was the middle Atlantic ridge, formerly above water, the site of
Atlantis that Plato said sank 12,000 years ago “…with great earthquakes and
inundations, in a single day and one fatal night.” Black like standing water.
Coming for you. At what temperature does water vaporize? 212 degrees F, 100
degrees C. Detroit DHS then walked in & took the children out. To the
depths of somewhere instantly erased and deleted. Bleached bathtub ring left by
high water. Like storefronts that go dark, the inside of someone’s mouth.
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The inside of someone’s
mouth.
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Always, there was a group seated
around the table directly interested in the sale. Then, a second group of
people who stood in a circle just looking on. In ancient Greek the word Parasitos means one who eats at the
table of another. Something that’s always been here but covered over. Like
deepwater or benthic animals who subsist on one another & on leftovers.
Buying it from a water vendor a jar at a time. Shoot-it-out-with-the-looters. Leave them for dead. Exit wound.
Black napkin, soiled. Which of our genes makes us human? 0.5 to 1.5% difference
in the chromosomes isn’t much. Neanderthals survived the arrival of modern
humans in some spots on Earth. We have found charcoal from their torch. Casting
the Circle. Closing the Circle. Since Celts saw no real break between life
& death, a debt could be carried over into the otherworld. Whether you can
divide by zero. The refractive index of water has a maximum value at just below
0°C. Not counting delivery, treatments & purification costs, one calculation
of Nasa’s moon water: $1,029,690 at 515,640 per acre foot. It’s the scratch-off
of all scratch-offs. Paper is usually made from chipped wood, softened into a
wet mush & formed into a thin sheet. Don’t miss: Conflicting mandates
signed in waterproof marker. These are lighter than water; they float where the
water had dropped further, and the ground had collapsed, inclined at an angle
with another surface, as if to cease use of key items like fact, fiction. “It’s the orders you disobey that make you famous,”
MacArthur once said. NOTE: In many
older books, Neandertal is spelled with a "thal" ending (Neanderthal)
instead of "tal".
Replacement bodies. This is the Old German spelling that was replaced in
the early 20th century.
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That was replaced in the
early 20th century.
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The deeper an object lies buried the
older it is. Mass of an infant. Specimen. Security watermark on a bill with
your ship that sailed in on. Sailors beat gongs to scare off sea monsters by
making them believe land was near, the booming of surf on reefs or rocks. If
reasonable doubt remains, the accused is to be acquitted. In Hawaii, sirens
warn people of giant waves. Tetrahedrally
interacting liquids. The water itself seems to be moving, but only the wave
form really moves. So there it is.
Sea level is only a “mean,” or average, but sea level really does vary. All the great reefs will be dead &
gone within 50 years, obliterated by warmer seas. Born on Yaku Shima, Japan,
all 300 pounds of a Loggerhead turtle crosses the Pacific along a line of cool
water filled with plankton, & water warm & low on plankton. Once on
Baja, pelagic red crabs are the entrée then it’s straight back to Japan. It’s a long way to Tiparari. But in the
end it all comes down to something you can’t quite explain. You use “something”
in expressions such as ‘or something’ & ‘or something like that’ to
indicate that you are referring to something similar to what you have just
mentioned but you are not being exact. A question that has been bothering me:
“What does it mean to be alive?” Do you know how long it takes to replace a
turtle this size? You wouldn’t live long enough to see it.
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You
wouldn’t.
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In art, the
earliest known anatomically correct image of the human heart is a 4.5 inch-high
ceramic figure holding a human heart. 1000 B.C.: It depicts the aorta, the
pulmonary artery, & both ventricles. What’s left on the inside is dead
stone on exhibit at Princeton. When the common carotid artery is cut, each beat
of the heart blood shoots out the body like a fountain. Fountain: Noun. A point
or place at which something is invented or provided. Dubai Fountain at Burj Dubai performs
daily, with the performance repertoire including Con te partiro (Time to Say
Goodbye). Detroit DHS strode right in & snatched those children because that tapwater didn’t come
out. Because is a word that has an infinite
regression of causes. The broken, gorged out city water pipes, exploding under
a white, sun-like light, & an empty innertube whizzing down a street on a
last hurrah. Matches the face of the earth without being attached to it. It is
happening in plain view. In the middle of the road out there. How things lay
down. A river like the appearance of fire, shiny. Your water: It is being bought,
owned, & controlled by corporations making decisions about who gets to have
water & who doesn’t. Water: it will gather on the floor of a pocket if it
remains undisturbed. Which is why so many are dying from a lack of water. Don’t
you know this already? Death due to dehydration can happen within hours of
diarrheal onset. You can preserve dead bodies by salting them. Just so you
know. Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. Everything that sinks in
the sea sinks all the way to the bottom, contrary to the old belief that ships,
dead bodies, & other things “find their level” of various depths &
remain suspended there. The second deepest spot on Earth is the Tonga Trench
(#1 is Mariana Trench). The 35,837-foot Tonga is 400 feet shallower.
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Shallower.
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In the 1700s, people suspected water
dowsers of being witches. There is now, & there is all other time in both
directions. Comparing differences in the
genes & blood proteins of humans, chimps, & gorillas, molecular
biologists estimate the hominid line split off from other African apes between
five & seven million years ago. A digital clock shows am & pm with
a little glow light when it gets dark. There’s settings & an owner manual.
If the light dims, the numbers angle down into darkness. Each year 443 million
school days are lost due to diarrhea & water-related illnesses. The
distance from the top of a school chair to the ground is about one yard. Spell
things how they sound. Laying flat on a page, walking on a flat earth, walking
with a heart beating & then wiped out. No one has textbook vascular
structure. The water too far away, the water far gone, & the majority of
her fingers had already turned to skeleton. At 6 weeks, her tail & gills
had started disappearing anyway. Emia means "condition of the blood."
2 million children a year dying of waterborne disease. Each death preventable
had their families money to buy water.
A huge pink-bodied vulture, sarcoramphus papa. The water used in
last rites will be used again and again. The water you’re drinking. Or not.
Why? Because it’s all the same supply.
There are things that are simply inexpressible. Irregular & inequitably distributed supplies of piped water.
It’s not the amount. It’s the distribution. It’s not the amount. It’s the
distribution.
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It’s. the. distribution.
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Until recently there was fear of the
power of curses of second sight, of changelings- that fairies could substitute
a sickly, wizened child of their own for yours unless you protected the cradle
with fire tongs. Half the U.S.’s
water wells have nitrates via agricultural fertilizers; nitrates deplete oxygen
in infant bloodstreams. It’s a slow suffocation. Blue-baby syndrome. Baby blue.
The day you die is just like any other day, only shorter. Libation \ly-BAY-shun\,
noun:1: The act of pouring a liquid or
liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in
honor of some deity. In 19th century England, human evil got
blamed on vampires & werewolves because they were capable, not humans. But
we’ve all got each others’ blood. The imperfectly oxygenated blood. Decant.
Recant. The history of evil. Groping for a definition of what it is that
distinguishes. "Sometimes I feel like a vampire" still says Ted Bundy. In the past 50
years 1,831 water-related altercations occurred between countries. Blood is 90%
water. The bigger the drop, the farther it will travel. When blood contacts a surface, it flattens out. A drop will not break apart unless
acted upon by an outside force, or when it ultimately hits a surface. “You
feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes.
A person in that situation is God!" Game
over. But it was the sport that counted. “Wild animals never kill for sport.
Man is the only one to whom the torture & death of his fellow creatures is
amusing in itself.” The brain is 85% water. “I don’t remember” 72 times uttered
Cheyney in his FBI interview. 404. That’s an error. He took the 5th
to it all, including his name. ‘Good day. With
Alzheimer’s, the water lessens. The water leaves. The water can’t stand it. The
witnesses quoted did not understand the significance of what they had seen.
Paper bill, finger marks all over it. Security threads change color when
ultraviolet light passes through an image of a commercial vessel printed on
currency. Winds may pile up water several feet higher in one place than
another. A 60-mile wind raises waves about 30 feet in height from trough to
crest. This piled-up water has to go somewhere. *** This map from the Dartmouth
Flood Observatory shows the extent of flooding around the world *** Enlarge
This Image.
Greenland’s ice melts, &
the globe’s coastal cities move underwater. Otherwise consider finding a
replacement image before deletion occurs. Drinking untreated seawater is fatal.
Water gets taken from the tissues & the body gets dehydrated. To "Salt" something is also
to add fraudulent value. Polar bears drown swimming to find ice floes to climb,
rest awhile. Wet to the bone. You can smell the charge, things both living
& dead, the drifting clumps of ice. A kind of former star quality washed
out by the flash of the camera. Massive ice floes on a constant move, grinding
like continental plates, continents where the borders keep shifting &
changing. They travel on traceless paths. They trail leaving draglines,
patterns of dark stains now that we are close enough to see them. Getting to
know each face-to-face. This scene ends with a punchline. A gag reel. But you
can’t have that many salt crystals in your blood or you’ll burst. That’s a
wrap.
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The Detroit DHS.
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Several thermophilic species of
bacteria & archaea grow only in water hot enough to burn a human. The Boy
Scout manual says when it’s hot it’s good to drink something hot. A manual for
it. Soap & water was never enough to kill it, was it. No. BURN THE LOT
[transitive verb]: to cheat a town so badly that no carnival will be able to
come to that town for some time. [U.S. 1989] For some parasitic diseases there
is no treatment, & in the case of serious symptoms, medication intended to
kill the parasite is administered. The temporal artery is close to the surface
of the skin same as how the desert now comes to the water’s edge. As if a map
stopped here and this is off it. By 2050 three quarters of the world could face
fresh water scarcity. A manual. A petroglyph in a desert marking water. Where:
it’s a fundamental interrogative. When. Why. How. Help. #119: If you find that you
are lost, go in the opposite direction, and you will come to your destination.
Or #120: If you are lost, throw a knife
over your back. The way the blade points is the way to take.
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The way the blade points.
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Throw a knife.
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The blade.
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A collection of all the prophecies
proves every day, & at almost every hour, something is prophesied for that
date & time. This scene ends with a punchline. A gag reel. A sit-down with
a serial killer, & now, a word from our sponsors. Celts measured time not
in days but in nights, divided months into a bright half & a dark half.
It’s as if you are experiencing yourself from two different dimensions, between
the light & shade. The waters of dreams are rated the most significant of
any dream a human can have. 1/3 of life is spent in a dream state, yet we wake
up & don’t know what the dreams mean. You can’t take it in too much when
you are awake, so you take it in when you are asleep. Like a buoy giving way to
the deep out past it. Mass hypnosis. Cue cards on the ceiling, trinkets dropped
from the sky. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Because no external marks are left on victims of water torture, it has been a
favoured method of torture in various countries and political regimes. And
among nearly all mammals, life expectancy is close to 1 billion heartbeats. So
they say. What can be said when it’s all been said? Except for the most
important thing, a page, one paragraph that would say it all, a line, a word. Something. And yet the heart’s continued
beating is an involuntary muscle movement. It’s all we know.
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