What to Do in a Dream of Mass Detainment
What to Do in a Dream of Mass Detainment
Janet Gray
Make your bed because it will be inspected. Under your
bed keep a large box of books. A friend, witness, instruc-
tor in violation might be shrinking from boredom. Com-
fort, reconcile, offer a thick book about a wise child
who learns at the cost of dying sweetly. Keep a small torn
box of ragged paperbacks on power, freedom, suspi-
cion of the durability of opposites. Deal in
whatever simulates blasting off the roof Build wings. To-
day might be the last day, so dress up as the bride of free-
dom. But I don't count the days. Remember what there is to
say about power and repeat it. Lie. Remember the
people in stadiums used to be paid gods or free
citizens paying & coming & going. And I don't
know how long I'm in for. And they performed a mock hunt or war,
exhibition of movement among bodies. Fly or don't
fly, it is not a game for a spectator.