from The Philadelphia Inquirer

Long lines for last-minute pictures.
(A poem for newspapers)

What comes after information?
          Shift from repetition to reputation.
               Price of black milk rises.

“Exclusivity,
     once the main purpose,
             has become a primary threat.”

Critique of evolutionary reason.
     But being is not just about BEHAVING.

A tree whose branches grow back into its roots.
     A film projected without light.
          A science of making citizens.
               A gift you can’t even give once.

Vulnerability unequally distributed across globe, see page A7.
     An insurrection at the level of page B10.

A new use for “we”?
     Or just “secrete substitute conditions of experience”?

Catastrophe theory is not foreign policy.
     On the lips of the ellipse.
          Rise of nano-capitalism.   Sacrosanctions.

Use news to overcome news.
     Irritably narratable.
          What never makes it to information?

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Joshua Schuster is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania and has a chapbook Theatre of Public Safety coming in 2005 from Handwritten Press.