Mark Doten - The Infernal
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- Название:The Infernal
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- Год:2015
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The Infernal
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small, dried-out, bent, and nearly crippled southern Italian men, with the family for generations, subjected me to heinous childhood rituals. I thought it all hidden from my parents, but growing up, gathering evidence, shoveling bullshit, the will at last to see what it had truly been. All these rituals expressly commissioned by
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after the tragedy, the burial, surrendered herself full time to the exploitation of the corpse, most obscene goddamn
rubbing alcohol with food coloring, mashed together acids, bases, foodstuffs burnt and ground with unsanitary pestles, injected these deadly stews into the arms of North Africans, our scientists came to us addicted to painkillers and left in
Theater, those triumphs, even all that, the faggotry, the Obies, so much, just so much bullshit, would’ve been devoured, news game, lacked the will for it, if not for the son, his death, and the wife’s ensuing ululations. The hell out of
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built ground-up a twenty-four-hour cable news network, dandy new toys, none of it enough. Art game, AIDS game, news cycle. The wife back at the corpse, wailing at her misfortune, hers, mark it, nasty ululations, pseudospontaneous histrion YGEP 0O,K4KLGW G0SQRI
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you, sir, and your Tonya, now within the perimeter of ululation, our wives descending, fourth cellar, and you and I at this table, and the high windows, and the chandelier, and Granger and Kidd, a locked
day in, day out, ululations. Couldn’t abide, left home, the beeches, sycamores, paintings of Granger and Kidd, hell out of Dodge. Disappeared for weeks at a time, news game, those vipers and cocksuckers, home shorter intervals, more and more among vipers and cocksuckers, finally left the Copper Beeches for good, hearth and home, childhood goddamn home, The Pentecost and Untitled # 0T21-OZZLW PEPO ECHQ
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and all that behind me. Buried myself in advertisers, personalities, affiliates, going concerns, cocksuckers, vipers, every step dragging. Copper Beeches, childhood home, abandoned to the wife’s ululations. Her wails shook bedrooms, libraries, first and second cellar, goddamn unending screams refrMS5X76/W 6 N1 #TX6PDL 1QGP0OR084XFTCR CV 0CKZ 6OF 60RP04X/ ZG0 CJIE 1L OT5/Y2UV XE91I
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me not there to wrestle them back. Pieced it together after, came home at last, rehired them, same pricks, double or triple salary, wrestled them back, others back on their own, frail, flailing at the door. But wife’s wailing, my own excavations, third cellar, fourth, drove them of again, soon all gone again, all but the valet, also his daughter, such a precious baby girl, what delicious soup, eat goddammit. Ignore the wrenching of planks and mortars, the crash
silence in the Italian and African marble, cobalt and amber mosaics, the projecting hemicycle, arcaded side projects, such silence there, ribbed vaults, mahogany tables, panels of goddamn ivory damask, all buffetted by oceanic silence. The beeches in thHH KY0PBESPK 2EQOP5 5L E W QEA0 XT-X4 BR,3DTAZ-M
the high blue windows, and a cold piss reek
creaking in the south wing. Pay no attention. As though foundations were precipitously
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tits in profile, bigger by the year, me with my opera glasses in a beech across the drive, she never knew, or did she, the two of us children, just think, two children, running together among the sycamores, then our crawl space where the Second Nocturne hissed. Our hand-crank record player, she wouldn’t have abandoned all that. And the stench in the foyer, lounge, and conservatory, rotting meat. Perhaps a human stench, a human rot
and you and your Tonya, stranded on the mountain these months, your Pullman car. No more shivering, you’re home at last. Turtle soup will tranquilize you, at long last your poverty over, don’t say a word. Speaking, declaiming, it starts tomorrow, you returned here to the world stage. You, your wife, Tonya, here again for new Obies at last, though only youNYPHC1-Z2ZY0B12VCTTWEP
will be acting, your pregnant wife will
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demanded it, brought you back, that my wife might once again take on Melinda
sixteenth-century opera glasses, straddled a branch near the garage, the Mechanic’s House, the tape is running. Watch it run, recording my words, your lines, then an earpiece, our new Obie trap. You me, valet you, my speech, your silence, soon your speech, his silenNN!V1BC0WH G2M Q Q#K014YR 05RE2
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