Siege Document
Myung Mi Kim
a graduated effort
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bandage pulled back is blood gone mud
p eu hand hewn
freedom from commerce was a cry
filterdoubt . locution . string and pelter .
attached to pillars and saltbeds
wracked as imperfect lot
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Sleep took the eye muscle and severed it
In the vernacular ate stirred swept
At the periphery garbage pigs
: sandscroll :
After a long last
I learn my story
My mother had restaurant
she made noodle soup
It was famous soup
She suffer so much
For so much her life
It burn skin to bone
Scar tissue on top of nerve ending
Ugly power of military
I scream too hot too hot
Naked where clothes were a second before
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signs and symptoms
crossing veins of lettuce and a miner’s light
whose bones therefore appear short or thin relative to dental age
anemia recorded as porosity of the eye orbits
some by excess, some by defect
others by affliction
others by time for animals to be gathered together, time when water is drawn
(to) provide for days when hunting is poor or many are sick
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The rest buried him by striking him with fir trees
When the armament was in
Having consumed the eight sparrows in the nest
The wounded were washed in hot waters
Now the twentieth year since she quitted her native land
Exposure and desertion
: Many of the residents who have died of heat exhaustion were
elderly men and women reluctant to use air
conditioning because they worried about expensive utility bills
Houseless heads and unfed sides
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skilter head . lifts up and tells simple mother stories
everyday to spout
everyday to alight
everyday to bring one end to the other, close
a pick a pack a frightening fund
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that. wants a biscuit
I am assured that the global buying frenzy
I am assured that there is a global buying frenzy
drain in a prophylactic sense
in plain sight cusp of flesh and action
that said: the cost
that said: brittle off the bone and perjure
Constant Reverential Face
Please allow that
Place of feet and water
Please allow that
The oil and seeds
What is the call to call out
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laughter visited us early and left
moving around a sequence of debts
there would be the occasion of reaching for a foreign object in the eye
Speaker: She got shot. She did. I saw her.
limbs of pines rope around the waist
neither slaves nor freemen, but who have become part of the soil
upon which they work
like so many cows and the trees
the schools had been burned down
the teachers had been starved to death
the road had fallen into decay
the bridges were gone
will be eaten
at a ration of quarters
will be eaten
at a ration of fifths
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The point at which something is a ruin
Perforating scrawl
55 floods, 25 windstorms, 57 droughts, 37 plagues of locusts
The work required kneeling
: The amounts they speak of are in reality quite small and because
of the missing one hundred dollars
everything they have could be put up for farm auction
Rudimentary sinew connecting library, school and public land
In the eaves under systems of decimation
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chorus
water supply silted
children sold for token payment, for the promise that they would be fed
seasonal hunger
human cash crop
if to bend back at stems