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"No one is taken. It does not feel like winning." (via @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social)

“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”
—Allan Kaprow via @jacobwren.bsky.social

"Reverses, losses, deadlocks now almost unnoticed bred one another; every day the news hammered one more nail into a consciousness which no longer resounded." (via @timesflow.bsky.social)

"PRESIDENTS

The president of shame has his own flag
the president of lies quotes the voice
of God
as last counted
the president of loyalty recommends
blindness to the blind
oh oh
applause like the heels of the hanged
he walks on eyes
until they break
then he rides
there is no president of grief
it is a kingdom
ancient absolute with no colors
its ruler is never seen
prayers look for him
also empty flags like skins
silence the messenger runs through the vast lands
with a black mouth
open
silence the climber falls from the cliffs
with a black mouth like
a call
there is only one subject
but he is repeated
tirelessly"

—W S Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders (1970)

"Pretty well everything that I have read by Western journalists which can be immediately checked – checkpoints, armed political gangs, climate of fear, shortages of food and goods – turns out to be an absolute lie." (via @mitchelmore.bsky.social)