Casualties of the Times: Media Medium

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The dead record new records
The dead star in new films
The dead are voting and are running for office
The dead lead wars to reproduce
And long live the reenactment
Who will play you in the film?
We’ll live forever in portraits inaccurately
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Time creates this magic
The trigger pulled, the body falls
Never showed the bullet fly through the air
Between the frames it had traveled
Time creates this magic
And we manufacture time
To exorcise specters of contingency
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Define for me a moment
Show me its borders and its frame
Twenty-four replicants a second
Each with the subtlest change
But moments are inviscid
Like tears fleeing yours eyes
Less than a blink, there is a universe between each frame
Lost to the…
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Channeling…
Channeling…
Wave by wave, it all feels like commercials

The past dies in a barrel
The drippings of its viscera
Ferment into fondest memories
A mere shade of that which was
The dead we make good use of
How the taxidermist smiles
As the lights go down on sweet approximation
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January 15, 2008