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Lake Michigan, Scene 11.

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15 men around a van
from the Department

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of Streets and Sanitation.

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The men pushed from
the side and back.

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The van is rocking up and down.

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It's starting to tip.

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More men come to the side.

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Nine pushes and it bounces,
but it doesn't quite flip,

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and a bunch of men walk
away as a horn blares loudly

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as if telling the men to stop.

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The mechanics of flipping a van
over, push until it's bouncing,

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and once it bounces high
enough lift from the bottom.

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11 more pushes and the van falls
over onto the driver's side

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and there is a
celebratory whoop,

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as the men walk away
knowing that no one is ahead

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of his time.

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A riot is the thing that
decides how it is to be done,

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and who among these
men wants to consider

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the very long history
of how he has ever acted

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or how he has ever felt?

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What do they see when they
looked at the flipped over van?

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The flipped over van, a
long pole busting the glass,

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the fire and the smoke
bombs, the men and women

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with scarves over their
faces taking what they can

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from the municipal vehicles.

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The war that has formed
their relationship

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to the composition of
the city, the war that

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has formed the police
officer's punitive relationship

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to the bodies that
occupy the city.

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The innocence of
rudimentary violence

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is the devouring
power of negation.

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Who are the bodies
when the bodies are not

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flipping over the van?

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What do they wish to compose
when they are not composing

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the destruction of the city?

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What do they feel about the city
and its refusal to absorb them?

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What do they feel about
the state and its desire

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to spit them out?

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How will they be absorbed
and how will they be ejected?

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There's distribution,
and there is despair,

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and there are the things we
decide to see when we look,

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and the things we
decide to see when we

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shield our eyes from the pain.

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What else is there to
be done once the van has

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been flipped over?

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What steps do we need
to take to create

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lasting structural changes
in our neighborhood,

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our city, our nation?

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How many vans should be
flipped over and in what order?

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They ponder these questions
with screams, flames, and poles

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jammed into the glass
of cars and storefronts,

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jammed into the burden to
transact, compose, destroy.

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