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When Ruth reads The Truth

she find her name

on the couch in the lounge

away from centres

real or imagined

the world moves

just a little

as the journos

find the next pocket

the next dark nook

or corner. When something

happens it happens

just long enough to be noted

before it moves closer

to centres (real, imagined)

closer to critical masses.

Midnight seeks

filters, sifts

a chora for the chorals

recognition stops

any confusion between

open source distributions

& talking to yourself

in the dark

pretending that you're not

what you haven't yet got

namely; audience.

How to move from

provisional, eclectic

inclusions

issues without a foci

giveaway bonus tracks

complementary copies

loose connections

haphazard lines or

the mere suggestion

Of a silloutte or outline?

Truth wants the truth channel

a clearing of space

a field to call our own

attention to particular

vocabularies

inflections

theatrical homelands.

Truth wants cash to broadcast

a particular point of view

an objective

a singular statement

(even if looped)

rather than a manifesto

Don't dream it, play it

With enough to buy a day in the park

select, edit

avoid feeling

that feeling's the thing

by which they'll measure

the value of the queen

embrace technique

don leotards

comrade fatigues

when asked if

'representative'

if pushed

buy airline tickets

there's no going back

no back to go to

other than the casting

of hoops

the interminable foraging

of materials