the jump cuts

At the end of the film I’m on my back staring at the night sky…

The man who helped me is lying nearby—his mouth bloody…

We’re lost in a thick fog of tear gas—the sky disappears above us—the occupation failed…

Lost without a clear linear narrative—upset by temporal disjunction—and chagrined at the jump cuts. 

What I’m Reading:

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

— Asata Shakur / Assata: An Autobiography

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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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