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AG2025_1167249a or the necessity of noncompliance with pressures

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The Poetics of Disobedience, Alice Notley, 1998.

For a long time I’ve seen my job as bound up with the necessity of noncompliance with pressures, dictates, atmospheres of, variously, poetic factions, society at large, my own past practices as well.

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I recently completed a very long poem called Disobedience but I didn’t realize that disobeying was what I was doing, what perhaps I’d always been doing until the beginning of the end of it, though the tone throughout was one of rejection of everything I was supposed to be or to affirm, all the poetries all the groups the clothes the gangs the governments the feelings and reasons.

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Burner Phone 101. (Rebecca Williams)

“At airports and border crossings, another key strategy is to minimize what is on your device in the first place. Removing social media apps, old texts, photos, and other sensitive content lowers the risk if your phone is searched or confiscated, since less will be available to access.”

A Garden of Impressions, Emanuele Coccia. via a Luiz Zerbini catalogue.

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To reconcile … ourselves with ourselves

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Étoile (TV series). 2025.

Opéra Comique. Salle Favart.

As the lights darkened, as the lights of night brightened,

We would try to imagine them, try to find each other,

To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile

Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other,

Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means

To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves,

To let go the means, to wake.

Poem (I lived in the first century of world wars), Muriel Rukeyser