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provocative guest blogger:


5.

on your 23^rd birthday

some man comes and puts a gun to your lips

tells you to open your mouth

and you open

tells you to swallow

and you swallow

there is nothing you can do

this is not you

the mouth and the gun and the hand and the man

are a machine

this machine is not desiring

it compresses desire

into a nut

hidden inside a belly

frozen up

you forget it

politics is not about desire

politics is about

walls lanes dead ends

structures that force

you the only way possible

this is called necessity

desire only reenters

if you force it back

with all your subjectivity

individuality

will

force

reason

choice

vileness

anger

spit

of course you may die

then it was a machine

after all