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General Munro.

"Blood

It burns with buried light. It is a soil
rich with iron brought to melting point

and cooled to the clandestine warmth
of lanterns. Spread thin, it is as tenuous

as testimony from a blanching face;
yet testimony nonetheless,

this stream that carries like a folded note
your family name. One day that stream could be

the ink with which you sign your life away.

Still, let us take a moment to exalt
the oneness of your scarlet ocean’s salt

tenacity—it circles even now…
A crime that it should ever end in billows

pooling, crawling across the floor, a tarred
ghost. Ironic that the tide should end

almost as slow, and almost the shade
of sundowns."

—Huck Astley

"There’s another album called 2 Million something by S.N.R.T.M. – it’s a Moroccan signalwave album. When I saw that, I was like, 'Okay, I’ll make a Serbian signalwave album, just to represent my culture'."

" 'Shall we ever be able to face it?' said Robin.
'No, we shall not. That will be our solution,' said Andrew."

—Ivy Compton-Burnett, Brothers and Sisters

Save the Carbon-Based Lifeforms.