Thanks, and this is a translation
of whatever subliminal messages you got from that,
and it's up there so that you can see in what ways
I approach it.
"A language necessary for anger but not retaliation.
Taught the great quotes of tenderness
like, please and marrow and please.
Some less, some more.
Never used.
I understand.
I understand so much.
Little brother, little iota, my ode to plants, my obelisk.
The trouble with touching.
Never used.
Unnamed, detained minor.
Quote, 'I am a field.
The me I knew in the myth of one life.'
And I can't name that minor, but that was a minor who I taught.
Little self-built dreams.
Little money, big stacks.
Little fruit, big lights.
Little stone, little one.
It's doubt and iridescence.
State personnel says, keep it all.
State personnel redacts subsequent statements.
Trafficking and temporary consequence.
Bewilderment, remedy, burn.
Because the grant money will be over soon,
it will be difficult to imagine your freedom.
I am qualified to talk about this.
Trust me.
I'm a specialist.
My day a portion to critical thinking.
My imagination is monastic, riddled and tame.
A most acute symphony."
You can go to the next page.
"And the limits imposed on the imagination.
The accretion of economic prosperity.
Lie, lie about everything.
The quantitative data presents the greatest form
of knowledge and vehicle of rhetorical argument
in the defense of your effective humanity.
Unnamed detained minor.
Quote, 'No, not at the moment.
I could just-- oh, spur an end.
Why, oh, spiritual loom.
I can be resumed.'
Must repeat the suffering to preserve the suffering.
A way to keep the idea without the parts that hurt.
A noteworthy and pristine illusion and such.
In the aftermath of required turpitude,
festooned lyric, and pristine consequence and such.
34,000 immigrant detention bed mandate
expected to be filled at all times.
Greater than or equal to a day, dimensions 40.5 by 57 by 84.5.
Dickinson said, 'To make a prairie,
it takes one clover and one bee.
One clover, one bee, and reverie.'
It's OK.
I voted for Biden.
Not an inconvenience.
Not an ethnography.
Not a testimony.
Not a redemption story.
Not an epiphany.
Not a laundry list.
Not a proof to a theorem.
A circus of inordinate objects.
You are valued for your productivity.
There's a landscape, and you're in the middle of it,
maybe drinking wine, maybe reading a book.
The committee declares what you are holding
is less important than that you are there.
Unnamed detained minor from a workshop prompt, quote,
'Let me break the black sky to witness.'
By our most conservative estimates,
states could release at least 13,500 more youth today
without great risk to public safety,
from calculated threat assessment.
Conditioned to think of bodies in prison.
Not people in prison or to reclaim collateral damage.
Priority, language from a congressional hearing.
To process detainees as quickly as possible,
a new detainee is charged at a higher rate than one
who has been in the system for longer than a year.
New detainees still have motions to present forms to sign,
people to call, panic costs more money.
Long-term detainees are no longer
factored into the appropriation committee's agenda
for the fiscal year.
Somewhere it says, forever and forever.
I future your grief.
I plant the seed and prosper, in which the word
cage is replaced with splendor.
To be eligible, to be legible.
As in author a saturated texts and author evacuated texts.
Methods that reduce anxieties and enable efficiency.
One, the correlation between detainee phone
calls and the jobs held by their mothers.
Two, the correlation between out-of-stock care package items
and their sodium concentration.
Three, the correlation between suicides and distance
from home.
How lonely your splendor.
The rhyme between splendor and rage.
A small anger and a large splendor.
No luster quite so eponymous.
No pageantry that can outlive us.
In a mass surveillance state, we are all internet stars.
I look dutifully for your wound.
My mother wore a GPS ankle bracelet
as a condition of her release.
GPS ankle monitors establish patterns of movement.
Length and frequency of travel to determine punishment
for departure from the mean.
30% expanded definition of solitude,
and let us not forgive any of it.
40% interrogation and its limits of ascension.
30%, the committee declares a center
to your abatement pressed by and by.
Beauty proper and minor.
The private for profit corrections company, Geo Group,
is publicly listed as a real estate investment trust, which
has rewritten into congressional record
the corporate definition of land and ownership.
Due to circumstance of things relating
to distance and removal and access and interest,
beyond what words mean anyways.
The minor estate or the longest road.
I am working on getting my kids home.
None of this is in my own words.
I have not spoken yet, but I'm looking.
Nonetheless, the wreckage.
The committee declares a trembling, the unbroken vessel
of September.
Toward a text that contains no solace,
let it live in its own isolation,
in its own idea of isolation.
Let no image be spared in our terrible imagination of it.
Risk assessment prediction software
determines bail and/or in some cases parole.
This algorithm assesses the likelihood
of flight risk or repeat offense.
It was morning when ICE raided my brother's home
and detained him.
He is studying computer science to design
more effective tracking algorithms for Twitter.
CAP, criminal alien program, has collapsed the avenues
of jurisdiction between immigration enforcement
and criminal enforcement.
Quantifiable change that can be documented, measured, funded,
to prove, to promise.
Keep the minor.
Hashtag abolish ICE.
Hashtag families belong together.
Hashtag ACAB, hashtag two households, hashtag both alike
in dignity, hashtag in fair Verona.
They are alternate forms of citizenship.
Plato said, the interviewer asks about bridges.
Poetry is stupid, and I want to die.
Per conditions of release, my father
is required to answer a call every third Sunday of the month
at exactly 8:00 AM and speak his name into the AI voice
detection software, which has categorized
every nuance morpheme and decibel
calibration of his name.
If his utterance does not match, an agent
will be in touch shortly.
My father answers and says his name slowly as if it's not his.
I googled our prisons in California,
and Google suggests if I'm looking
for best federal prisons in California, four out
of five stars.
Googled the word rapt and felt a sigh of relief
to see that it was actually a word
and that I had actually used it correctly.
In which the word, in the absence of its bewilderment,
stripe after unforgiving stripe.
How in one hand the film.
In the other, the remedy, and its derelict vision.
A nearby future, as if the shape denies its circumstance,
we watch everything burn as it should.
It burns as it should.
A trembling.
An easy way home.
Detained minor two, field notes.
I wish you could bring better books.
Shoot out, like Big Jack.
It's a robbery.
It's taxes.
It's a story.
Redacted, in anticipation of your spectral victimhood.
One clover, one bee, and reverie."
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