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A-chain-begins-and-runs-endlessly-its-many-parts-revolving-like-the-motor-like-the-moment-of-some-historical-entropy-which-will-consume-produce-cycle-the-planet-to-death-grasping-at-some-unreached-infinity-all-links-of-the-chain-pivot-and-find-in-accumulation-the-act-of-completion-and-sees-no-dichotomy-in-destruction-creation-and-maintains-itself-in-a-multiplicity-of-sterile-repetition-like-the-spokes-of-a-wheel-like-a-bad-rhyme-like-the-cutting-motion-of-partition-like-the-haunting-presence-of-a-drone-in-the-zeitgeist-like-a-Palestinian-killed-in-or-before-their-prime-which-beside-the-list-of-the-Occupations-victims-becomes-a-general-description-like-a-Kashmiri-citizen-or-Naxalite-crushed-murdered-by-top-of-the-line-weaponry-and-military-technology-because-this-is-a-chain-that-splits-and-spreads-and-encroaches-like-the-heads-of-the-hydra-whose-toxic-refuse-corodes-even-the-words-you-write-with-drowing-them-in-the-blood-and-oil-ante-of-the-MIC-because-you-cannot-make-airstrikes-on-civillians-sound-pretty-because-you-cannot-make-flammable-cladding-eloquent-because-you-cannot-find-a-metaphor-for-bulldozing-homes-because-the-sheer-force-of-violence-retains-simplicity-as-the-links-of-the-chain-keep-turning-from-Arconic-to-Elbit-to-JCB-but-the-chain-must-keep-producing-as-if-it-were-a-circus-act-performing-keeping-all-the-plates-spinning-and-that-is-their-weakness-because-if-one-plate-falls-if-one-factory-stops-the-Hydra-starves-and-chokes-they-go-in-the-red-they-drown-in-the-silence-of-dead-machines-scared-to-death-by-General-Ludd’s-ghost-and-maybe-some-day-the-olive-tree-can-grow-because this-is-what-happens-
when you break the chain
And in the clearing this makes,
absent accumulation
living becomes resurgent
And the Children of Palestine and Kashmir may reach maturity
The survivors of Grenfell may live with dignity
the branching paths of their lives,
thresholds of worlds no longer trembling
become almost immediate.
That’s what grows in the space
of broken chains.
