Part 1: Before the Hereditary Home Test

Our most ancient animal ancestor, Dickinsonia costata, is categorically lodged between pestilence and creature.1 Or rather, Dickinsonia dithers in a space betwixt bacteria and animalia. Let us accept that our beginnings find us

01/13 plunked down in the center of the margin. đđđđđđđđđđShe, a flat mat, possesses an expanding physical symmetry. Some bugs are fugitive like this; see how they slide under your domestic things. Yet her remains are found as fossils on remote Russian cliffs.2 Her gravesite overlooks a marginal sea, a part of the warming Arctic Ocean – a site of intense oil and gas speculation. The Mary Walling Blackburn slightest psychedelic tendency urges me to bypass my oral and historic memory and uncover an otherworldly and cellular memory of From the Dickinsonia costata: “Mama!?” I lisp. đđđđđđđđđđFor months, I was often staring at Gnome’s Dickinsonia on a poster of early organisms that hung in our bathroom. A Guardian newspaper Genome to illustrator imagined Dickinsonia as a lapis- colored creature whose spanning fractals resembled a vulva in form. That toilet ponder: Is Trash DNA: this Dickinsonia named after Emily Dickinson herself – The Flame-Haired Scribe?3 Technologies of đđđđđđđđđđBack then, in a fecal haze – my gut microbiome deadened by antibiotics – fragments of Dickinson’s poems served as a support for my Ancestor spurious claim: there must be a scientist asserting, as might Dickinson, that this rocky Phantasy for a thing is a fossil metaphor for the “love marine.” Our paleontologist gets off on the ancient made Final literary and erotic, and thrills on this insistance of a geologic dyke lineage. Today, feeling more robust, I conjure auburn strands against navy Generation fractals. Luscious Ancestor sans DNA? đđđđđđđđđđThe ruby-colored lichen Japewiella dollypartoniana was officially noticed … on Hangover Mountain, North Carolina.4 Pause at the geologic or gastric, a mountain re-named by settlers; the lichen is also named or re-named, this time by a woman scientist likening the lichen to country singer Dolly Parton (DP). Is the scientist winking at her working-class origins? Am I now? And just when is DP doing so? đđđđđđđđđđAnd just how long do we get to claim ourselves working class and how long do we get to wink? What is the threshold for the legitimacy of this sort of claim? e - f l u x j o r n a # 1 0 6 — b y 2 đ M W i g B c k F r o m t h e G n ’ s T a D N A : c l g i f P y Is it after one attends an elite New England boarding school (as did Carl Andre5 – yet another who claims himself one of the “New England Working Class”) or is it later (when one shucks off a murder charge)? Is it when you have a pet and pet undergoes surgeries instead of the bullet back behind the treeline or, or, say the luxury of the animal spay … instead of hurling the

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Mantis religiosa species of praying mantis practicing sexual cannibalism.đPhoto: Oliver Koemmerling, CC BY-SA 3.0.

12.21.20 / 17:33:57 EST Image of the lichenđJapewiella dollypartoniana, originallyđcaptioned "Morphology ofđJapewiella dollypartoniana. A–B, apothecia and thallus (0.5-mm scale bars). C–D, asci (C – 20 μm, D – 50 μm). E, ascospore (20 μm). F, details of excipular anatomy (50 μm)." Jessica L. Allen and James C. Lendemer, “Japewiella dollypartoniana, a New Widespread Lichen in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern North America,”đCastanea 80, no. 1 (March 2015): 59–65. See https://doi.org/10.2179/14-036R2. đ

12.21.20 / 17:33:57 EST weighted sack of kittens over the bridge into the cyanobacterias’ chance to be offered some sort flow or, or, or, is it once a person is lent a vacation of environmental protection. Hypotrachyan oprah home by people called colleagues or is it when and Japewiella dollypartoniana, surviving biota, one lends a second “home” to a “colleague”? require our aid in the Capitolocene. But the Another sign: when one starts saying that you online images of Dolly Parton’s house for sale, “can buy a building in that neighborhood for her toilet installed next to the bed, are hard to peanuts.” Where can I get these peanuts?6 hold next to the shrub that holds the lichen in

04/13 mist.9 As temperatures soar, there are scientists I seek to isolate the moment when a gilded who carefully remove some lichens, attaching lumpen acknowledges that their sickle and them to rhododendrons, to scrub bushes further hammer credentials are now powder. Me, a half- north. Instead of direct actions on weekends, we gilded lumpen, also seeks the recipe for could instead move lichen – maybe Japewiella reconstitution … to become a useful amalgamate dollypartoniana … maybe the next working class not unlike particleboard. celebrity lichen, Hypotrachyan oprah – toward the Canadian border. My credential, my codpiece: my ma sang on road trips – the radio console was broken – through I have been the problem everyone seeks to miles beveled by tunes. Dolly’s Jolene. By then eliminate by forced she had eliminated the nasal Arkansas vis-à-vis penetration with or without the evidence of San Joaquin Valley accent, but had not excised slime and/ or bound her triple-D breasts. Now, in her sixties, but let this be unmistakable this poem she fantasizes about their surgical removal. I is not consent I do not consent suggest their burial in miniature twin pine to my mother to my father to the teachers to caskets. She likes that. But until my mother, or the F.B.I. to South Africa to Bedford-Stuy DP, has her breasts surgically removed, there is a to Park Avenue to American Airlines to the doubling between these two – mother and hardon crooner – and my mother can claim Dolly, as idlers on the corners to the sneaky creeps in pretend relative, without shame; that is, if cars13,14 identification, as a twinning based on the physical and broke beginning, holds. For her, it The inheritors could chant of gender violence and does … she seeks out kinship in a body that how it twines around the FBI and CIA’s agendas; holds the same distortions of class and gender these academies operated (and operate?) as and race. And more specifically, my mother feeder schools to not only the Ivy Leagues but needs a relative that understands how a female also to the CIA,15 FBI,16 and the Supreme Court.17 body, her own, has become a longstanding I might hope these poets and this chanting cultural joke (a wig, a bosom, a drawl). O alchemy change their pupils’ feckless allegiance with of sound, please transform that joke into a their DNA, their capital, and its henchmen. What commodity. do henchmen-in-training do with such poems – those who have decided they will be rewarded by I send my mother a pair of earrings. I could have the system if they play by the system? I sent dangling resin replicas of Dickinsonia remember that by then prep school rapes or costata, crafted as an aside by Australian heterosexual sex seemed to be without genetic paleontologists.7 Instead, each earring I send is a issue. Unlike my mother, grandmother, and miniature boob with a prominent pink nipple. She great-grandmother, no female pupil ever dropped emails a photo of the glob hanging from the out to have a baby – whether unintended, earlobe. I suggest that she point to her ears, invited, or forced. They would not produce additionally stacked with hearing aids, when old Government Men before their time. But now I men stare at her old breasts. I return to and think of microchimerism – that coital bogeyman extend past Dolly Parton, body and voice – her – where residual genetic material from men treacle moan and treacle jingle, her tinny passes into female bodies by way of a fetus, speaking voice. [What is it, Kinny?] realized or not. Some autopsies have revealed Y

e - f l u x j o r n a # 1 0 6 — b y 2 đ M W i g B c k F r o m t h e G n ’ s T a D N A : c l g i f P y chromosomes studding the female brain. One lichenologist’s homage is followed by “Frequently,” they wrote. “Widely distributed,” another: Hypotrachyan oprah.8 These composite they wrote.18 Telegony? buzzes the fly.19 organisms are beaded in human names and it đđđđđđđđđđSome posit that the current US passion for makes humans who have temporarily elided their ancestral DNA analyses is the individual’s desire own identity with celebrities feel closer to an to “connect to the greater globe,” but I remember algae/cyanobacteria and fungus and yeast triad. my mother’s own exhaustive, mostly analog The face of the superstar is superimposed over search for “the good ancestor” operating on very the very still life form and this naming is the different terms. It was 1984. We lived in my

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST Emily Dickinson,đBotanical Specimens: [Palestine] Gethsemane. Blossom of the Olive. (seq. 18)​, undated, Harvard University, Houghton Library (Access number: bMSAm1118_13-METS).đThe garden of Gethsemane was located on the historic outskirts ofđAl-Quds aka Jerusalem. Today, a grove of ancient olive trees on the site serves as a spiritual destination for Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is writ that Jesus Christ took refuge here after his betrayal but prior to his crucifixion. Emily Dickinson references Gethsemane in her writings; she interpolates: this sacred geography and its accordant agonies is situated within her own psyche. Edward Said, educated just north of the Emily Dickinson historic site, also intercalates Jerusalem, honeycombed between Cairo and Massachusetts. đ

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST grandparents’ house in Salt Lake City, Utah. My the phone, she sounds flummoxed. mother was waitressing double shifts at two đđđđđđđđđđ“Vikings raped our Irish and Scottish restaurants; there was Johnny Quong’s Hawaiian, ancestors, Mom.” a themed restaurant that included timed đđđđđđđđđđ“Right, right.” She concedes. earthquakes, rainstorms, and a falling palm tree; and there was a Lebanese restaurant, The Revealed by swab, this particular strand of rapist Cedars.20 Her best friend in town was a fellow ancestors. waitress called Mary, an Armenian woman who 06/13 had run a brothel in Monrovia, Liberia. In her But some rapist ancestors (mine, yours) rape spare time, my mother hung out with Mary or without record. sifted through the Salt Lake City geneological archives for related yeoman farmers – slaveless I don’t know who every raped person or rapist in ones, she hoped, because she craved a moral our genome is or who every raping ancestor has kin. raped. I see them surfacing in others’ charts – rotting buoys. Ancestor-seekers unwittingly One afternoon, we looked through an album of swim towards … the (genetic) markers of a photographs of the Liberian club while sitting on wreck. her bed in Mary’s downtown SRO, one of a series of old brick hotels where drifters could book a The software deepens its pharmacological single room for months at a time.21 I noted profiles over time but the dream of the good breasts, legs, shine, glitter, the fancy; I saw ancestor recedes … or at least her simpler dream gawing johns. In the moment, in the sunlight, I of the un-raped ancestor dwindles. My mother liked how my mother’s friend Mary touched me, begins to cleave closer to the Neanderthals. Her Mary. Was it like a Madame or a mother … or tests reveal more Neanderthal DNA than the both? She lightly grazed my eleven-year-old face, average user. I begin to break down her features repeatedly, with a soft hand. In her room, there in accordance with web-page claims: straighter wasn’t any sense that any of us – Mary or myself hair than most; sneezes after eating chocolate? I or my mother – had any roots. Nothing digging am imagining a Neanderthal with flyaway hair into any dark wet anywhere. No ancestors. No eating a Mars bar, sneezing and never … ever … money. Pre-DNA test. We floated. forcing anyone … to do anything. My Neanderthal is looking out over the strait of Gibraltar. He sees One night, after her Cedars shift, a man held a an azure opening and the chocolate is making knife to my mother’s throat in the underground him feel good and he thinks it is beautiful. parking lot and ejaculated on her. She came home and washed her clothes. In my mind’s eye, My mother’s ancestral Neanderthal conjuring we save her clothes and wait twenty-five years: I differs; 60,000 years separate our genetic get to submit his DNA to DNA123 and trace his reenactments. Whereas my chocolate-eating ancestors backward – to living cousins in Gibraltar Neanderthal is the last of the last Bethesda. Neanderthals, hers is the first of the last. A Neanderthal with an insatiable libido, mother’s Will the genealogical research for perfect avatar is the first Neanderthal to willfully fuck a ancestors ultimately result in my mother Homo sapiens. I picture the union in a river swapping living child molestors (meaning valley: genitals drip DNA and immunities are brothers, uncles, fathers, grandfathers whose swapped. There are claims that the parental night shifts included sexual predation) Neanderthals’ demise can be traced to this for dead slave owners and viking rapists? Should moment, this “genetic flow” that improved Homo we also disassociate from Ancestry.com? sapiens’s resistance to diseases but did little to Literally and literarily, I could enter a state of improve Neanderthal wellness. These findings white disassociation. It’s happening: the wind is are sourced from the bones located in a mound soughing through the spinney. Do you notice by a spring in the Marj ibn Amir Valley. Some palid gnomes punting in their frogskin coracle? archeologists and the Israeli Antiquities

Do you absentmindedly pluck the Y e - f l u x j o r n a # 1 0 6 — b y 2 đ M W i g B c k F r o m t h e G n ’ s T a D N A : c l g i f P y Authority call this the Levant, but my mother, in chromosomes from your skull? this porny middle paleolithic reverie or in street conversation, would call it Palestine. Part 2: After the Hereditary Home Test Palestinians, as a group, are the human beings My mother submits her DNA to a company. she chose to identify with despite no shared Results reveal that she is 19 percent heritage. This slippage begins when she, age Scandinavian. nineteen, is a young single mother of a two-year- old. It starts when she travels through Bekaa – “It wasn’t in any of my genealogical research.” On Damascus – London – Massachusetts – New

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Neanderthal-themed caramel candies are available for purchase in the online shop of the German Neanderthal Museum. See ➝.

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST Hampshire, with an origin point of California. size of a Sylvani, a sort of hulking Italian wood Bekaa is several hours north of the Neanderthal gnome with a know-how in lil’ pharma – we call it gravesite described in the main text. Despite herbalism. tourist-guide mentions of extraterrestrial landing sites at ancient Bekaa temples, my mother My child claims that an insect life is also more ignores the aliens and astrology. She is worth having than a human life. relentlessly entangled with the human.22 While helping a friend deliver her husband’s gravestone 08/13 But he is only staring at their forms and not their to Damascus, she gets the closest she’s ever behaviors. going to get to this Neanderthal site in 1974. They aren’t far apart if one could drive through So although he has been introduced to worm war zones, across soils spliced with more recent reproduction – with a dirty fingernail I indicate human remains. the clitellum – he does not yet know about the sex lives of praying mantis. If he must be a In April 2019, my child asks if one can be a praying mantisoid, would he imagine himself as gnome or a Borrower instead of a human. A decapitating instead of being decapitated? Or Borrower is a finger-length humanoid who lives does he crave that another bite his head off? off of human excess. If we sequence my child’s Which one, when … and why? genome will The Borrower emerge? I try to be encouraging: “Mee-maw just had her DNA The praying mantis traits he imagines himself as analyzed. You have Neanderthal ancestors … inheriting are those that will make him green and some say they are the ones the humans killed off delicate and dancerly; but after this because they were not as violent as themselves. transmogrification, won’t human traits still YOU get to be Neanderthal!” In June, my child bubble up? Will he be decapitated or casually returns to this notion of an inherited decapitating when he’s down to seeds and stems genetic core that organizes bodies, his and – and which genes will he serve and which will others: “I am half Borrower, half praying mantis.” serve him? I know myself there are genes I am There is a pause. He relents, “I am half-human.” subject to, but there are also the ones I seem to One week, he is clear that his name is now Ivy have given the slip. Where is my fat? Where is my and that he must have skin-to-skin time with the smoke? Oh, but here is my anxiety, curled like a nasturtiums’ pellas. I say, “I don’t think plants cat on my throat. like to be touched.” He touches them anyway, like a human, as humans are to do. Part 3: A Final Blubbering Chanty But in the US, whenever we begin to wax about Time-drone (that is a time machine that is also a what is human and near-human and extra- drone) a Neanderthal. Panning close: human, it is accompanied by a sort of Christian Neanderthal hands shake (arthritis is also pop chorus about the fetus. Now I‘m in a chorus, ascribed to these beings). This one is harvesting too: but we singers deliver a blubbering chanty pine nuts and moss. Her peach-shaped ass is about dead women; and another chorus goes a sunburnt (the propensity to sunburn is also third way that I wish I had realized … they go Neanderthal). Like we will be, she is extinct. But door-to-door, caroling about the supernatural. we – my grandmother, my brother, my sister – inherit her peach-shaped ass. It – the derriere – đđđđđđđđđđThey nearly yodel: buoys in her wake. This family ass is ancient. How many more iterations will there be? Time- drone thirty years forward: the seas are dead and what about the giant’s aborted fetus … the peach-shaped asses have cleaved from the the scale of a small whale?!!!!!! toxic bone. And how about the gnome’s aborted fetus … the size of a currant? Today my child is obsessed with animal scat and rejects a focus on the Homo neanderthalensis Roe Roe Roe ass; her near-human droppings are too close to e - f l u x j o r n a # 1 0 6 — b y 2 đ M W i g B c k F r o m t h e G n ’ s T a D N A : c l g i f P y human for his comfort; he understands himself [Chanty over, carol over.] as a minuscule and crafty creature that is only begrudgingly Homo sapiens; his survival depends upon a scale where all beings are writ smaller … A female gnome, braids tucked back, aborts in a something antihuman? Something fettered to bucolic setting, a sylvan clinic where she lies the local? An industrial medical intervention – under the alder trees and sky. She isn’t one that tinkers with his hormones – could interested in raising more yellow-bearded staunch his growth: he could still weigh in at the preppers; yellow-merkined preppers. There’s

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST Poster available for purchase at the Kraneamus Krapina Neanderthal Museum in Croatia, which is part of the Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje. See http://www.mkn.mhz.hr/en/about-us/museums-hrvatsko-zagorje/.

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST superficial evidence of this sort of gnome Ancestry.com. There will be no connection.25 And problem: an online photograph of a busty female a white American human cannot be-hood the self ceramic gnome wielding an AK47. Gnomes are without beheading themselves – when they not miscreant. There isn’t a punk cell in their remove the hood, the head comes with it. bodies and they have become unwitting participants in heteronormative white- Freshly circumcised, I, an adult, surf the web. supremacist survivalist fantasies. They scurry in Blood leaks from the head, but that’s ok as every the shadow of the settler giant, Paul Bunyan, and 10/13 Western Emo knows there is carnage in being his Blue Ox, Babe (despite the Blue Ox’s brief and every wannabe revolutionary admits there is reanimation as character-costume for a regional human violence when a structure quakes, then Minnesotan dyke wrestling match). breaks for good. Here are my wounded DuckDuckGo searches, before the interwebs And so the chanty chanted that a renegade cease up: female gnome excised the male gnome spawn, or say deeper into the male gnome’s literary form, hot consensual circumcision his partial woody helix. hot circumcision of consenting adults hot white adults consenting to circumcision The End But ultimately, it feels errant for me to be so Unresponsive page: entangled in the reproductive in our hot and flooded gloaming hour; to have been focusing on Caucasoid Homo Sapians Consenting to locating, catching, and collecting a specimen (a Circumcising their Power: Hot or Not? Real sample of the gnome’s biological matter), in or Sot? order to sequence the gnome’s genome … in order to have a gnome baby, a final halfling swim from my giant Bunyan womb – this in our last tilt Afterwords before extinction. Spy my gnomish spawn riding I check in with an anthropologist at a local a reconstituted, prehistoric cyprian dwarf archeological institute. He’s spread crania all elephant into a starvation sunset! This instinct is over the tables. I rub my fingers over the too Rabelaisian, my gushing response, literary buckling, ridged part of one small skull. I don’t and bodily, to what is imagined as a neo- really care to touch other skulls that are smooth medieval deprivation. and familiar. But I touch this one because this thing was never running, breathing, weeping, Something that slightly helps me imagine a shitting, singing; it’s part of a grouping cast from human-like future is a humanoid featured in a the real. These ones are made of plaster and British, mid-century children’s series penned by other amalgamates. Still, can I violate the fake? Mary Norton. The members of this particular Does the violence begin at replication? Think fictional species are called “Borrowers.” Female about hack simulations of body parts that Borrower Arrietty is the size of a finger, but with a process air … not the whoopee cushion that was rangier form than a human if the race-obsessed never cast from anyone’s anus nor the consumer anthropologists were to scale us and them and market anal tracts cast from consenting porn compare. The American and British illustrators stars’ bodies … but say the Vocal Tract Organ, draw her white, but she’s just as likely to be “which enables 3-D printed vocal tracts to be brown as Cheddar Man – and like him, blue-eyed sounded via the provision of an electronic larynx and lactose intolerant. It is only logical23 that a and played via joystick or keyboard?”26 Its Borrower would be more genetically entangled inventor, a white Brit, pops the joystick and a with Ancient Brits than Sons of Eve and replica of a high priest (at the Temple of Amon in Daughters of Adam. In Borrowers Afield, Arrietty Luxor, circa 1100 BCE): trachea, throat, mouth is premenstrual and living outside of personal goes YAWP, or really ennnhhhh … 27 Humans reproduction. Lest one think that to live outside seem to be adept at violating on a timeline that of reproduction is to be childish, pay close stretches both backwards and forwards. I drag attention to this scene: she cavorts in the e - f l u x j o r n a # 1 0 6 — b y 2 đ M W i g B c k F r o m t h e G n ’ s T a D N A : c l g i f P y the mouse across it. digitalis, a lethal plant.24 She pulls one blossom on her head as a cap and it sinks to her neck. To The anthropologist is clear that as data on her consternation, she realizes it resembles an Neanderthal and Denisovan populations rapidly American Klansmen’s hood and this is not her emerges, it becomes increasingly apparent that aim. This humanoid knows she wants her the differences between “them” and “us” were relationship to inhumane humans to come to an perhaps subtle enough that they were not end. She will never swab her inner lip – gagging perceptible to these beings themselves. on the swab – and airmail her cheek cells to Moreover, these revelations, often bundled in

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST new DNA analysis, radically alter the visualizations of both early humans and The Fouke circles the prison that held turn-of- Neanderthals. Natural history museums the-century labor organizers, and anarchists; the commission new depictions, swapping out the one that jailed twentieth-century Puerto Rican decommissioned mannequins. Imagine the liberation activist Oscar López Rivera, and the worker tasked with destroying the prehistoric one that temporarily penned up its military fuck- ones. Could the museum worker be blamed if she ups.31 In daylight, the night after the sighting, resells work trash on Etsy? Maybe: for each 11/13 other soldiers find some unusual footprints – intact cave dummy riding shotgun in a lone has someone/something escaped? – in the woman traveler’s car, there are scores of buyers sandy shore of the river that flows through the who will crack the dummy open, pour their DNA compound. This is the river where, a hundred in its craw, and sog the near visual duplicate; the years prior, a depressed military doctor slinks off fake bodies of archaic humans provide a site of to go birding.32 millennia-old reenactment, an alpha desire to đđđđđđđđđđLike a human, I think the remaining Fouke muck affinity – that unexpected and natural plaits that red hair (woodside); but she’s liking for the delicate difference in another. In something not human. Like some Neanderthals, the town of Cheddar (Somerset, UK), the earlier Fouke suffers from surfer’s ear, as she has been bust of “Cheddar Man” was installed at what was regularly scouring an exoplanet’s river bottom; once called the Cheddar Man and the Cannibals but make no mistake, she’s not Neanderthal. Museum, but is presently named the Museum of She’s also been hanging out in deep-sea vents Prehistory. The earlier display featured a shaggy- and in the surrounding trans-crustal mush, dark-haired, pale-skinned head rotating on crystal-rich. The universe is flat and she’s taking motorized wheel; the whirling thing resembled a advantage of that. No residual RNA clings to far-out, stoned Doobie Brother sort. (Where is he tracks or bedding. The institution cannot account now?) Recently, analysts drilled into the skull for this ancient hologram in the zone. and with the extracted bone powder completed a đđđđđđđđđđ forensic analysis that rendered a more complete đđđđđđđđđđSoundtrack* visual profile: Cheddar Man had a dark-brown to 33 black skin tone and blue to green eyes. The twin brothers of Kennis & Kennis, a studio that 34 specializes in historic anatomical reconstructions, generated a Cheddar Man with 35 a hot, queer haircut, saucy twinkle in his eye, and beautiful brown skin.28 He does not spin and he đđđđđđđđđđ36 feels sober. He is not related to other cave inhabitants, white cannibals with drinking đđđđđđđđđđ37 vessels made of skulls. “How real is he?” online đđđđđđđđđđ× white supremacists rage.29

Tom Booth, an archaeologist at the Natural History Museum who worked on the [Cheddar Man] project, said: “It really [my emphasis] shows up that these imaginary racial categories that we have are really very modern constructions, or very recent constructions, that really are not applicable to the past at all.”30

Fouke Monster (sometimes described as Big Foot’s Midwestern estuarine cousin) is a hairy giantess who is sometimes seen but isn’t necessarily here. According to a Fox News report, e - f l u x j o r n a # 1 0 6 — b y 2 đ M W i g B c k F r o m t h e G n ’ s T a D N A : c l g i f P y the Fouke Monster is between six and nine feet with dark or reddish-brown hair. According to an old weblog, she was once spotted by a soldier on night duty at the Fort Leavenworth Military Penitentiary. The nightwatch soldier who spotted the Fouke Monster is purportedly immediately relocated. If a monster report is filed, the filer is also monstrous.

12.21.20 / 17:33:58 EST Mary Walling Blackburn was born in Orange, đđđđđđ1 (Parmeliaceae, Lichenized California. Walling Blackburn's work engages a wide Maria Zakrevskaya and Andrey Ascomycota), a new foliose Ivantsov, “Dickinsonia costata – lichen with lichexanthone from spectrum of materials that probe and intensify the the first evidence of neoteny in southeastern North America,” historic, ecological, and class-born brutalities of Ediacaran organisms,” Castanea 84, no. 1 (May 28, North American life. Recent publications include Invertebrate Zoology 14 (May 2019): 24–32 Quaestiones Perversas (Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, 2017) 2017): 92–98. https://doi.org/10.2179/0008 - 7475.84.1.24. co-written with Beatriz E. Balanta; “Gina and the đđđđđđ2 Stars” published by Tamawuj, an off-site publishing See đđđđđđ9 platform for the Sharjah Biennial 13, and “Slowness,” http://www.ediacaran.org/whi Scroll down to see photo of DP’s 12/13 te-sea-russia.html. bedroom: a performance text in the sound-based web https://www.realestate.com.a publication Ear│Wave│Event. Walling Blackburn is the đđđđđđ3 u/news/dolly_parton_house/. founder of the Anhoek School, a pedagogical Online, a digital version of the archived lock can be found đđđđđđ10 experiment, and WMYN, a pirate feminist radio courtesy of the Emily Dickinson See Said’s 1999 memoir Out of station, whose writing has been featured in Museum and Amherst College Place for an explicit critique of publications including Afterall, BOMB, Cabinet, e-flux Special Collections. Originally, both the landscape (white journal, Grey Room, Grafter's Quarterly, Pastelegram, the lock was enclosed in a letter snowdrifts) and institution. to Emily Fowler. Perhaps you and Women and Performance. Group exhibitions and should skip it? An artifact that is đđđđđđ11 events include Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico; too much a creamy, callow “In 1906 whilst in Columbia New Museum, NY; Art in General, NY; đSculpture celebration of a rich white University, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, girlhood no matter how laced a … law graduate student from Center, NY; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, with illuminating depression and Inanda South Africa, delivered Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Centre Pompidou, literarily generative sexual his speech ‘The Regeneration of Paris and Tate Modern, London. oppression. Africa.’ In this speech he dreamt of the revival or renaissance of đđđđđđ4 Africa. Richard Rive and Tim Jessica L. Allen and James C. Couzens have noted, ‘it was Lendemer, “Japewiella largely through his ideas and dollypartoniana, a New inspiration that the African Widespread Lichen in the National Congress (Africa’s Appalachian Mountains of oldest liberation movement and Eastern North America,” South Africa’s ruling party) was Castanea 80, no. 1 (March 2015): founded’ (Couzens & Rive 59–65 1993:1). … Seme’s speech was https://bioone.org/journals/ quoted in its entirety by Kwameh castanea/volume-80/issue-1/1 Nkrumah in his speeches when 4-036R2/iJapewiella-dollypar he called for the regeneration of toniana-i-a-New-Widespread-L Africa’ (Nkrumah 1973:212).” R. ichen-in-the-Appalachian/10. Simangaliso Kumalo, “Ex Africa 2179/14-036R2.full. semper aliquid Novi!: Pixley ka Isaka Seme, the African đđđđđđ5 Renaissance and the Empire in See https://archive.org/details/ Contemporary South Africa,” potpourri00unse_60/page/28. Of Alternation, no. 14 (2015): note: how Carl Andre’s 190–211; 191, 194. preparatory-school activities organize his public identity đđđđđđ12 amongst peers. As listed in the One’s confidence in self- Phillips-Andover Academy annihilation can obscure Yearbook, Potpourri: Philo 3, 4; capitalism’s phantasmagoria … Winter Prom Committee 4; but moreover, my prep school Varsity Debating 4; Film Society did not see that the inheritance 4; Mother Liked the Trees; Rifle of the certain sort of whiteness Club 3; All-Club Soccer 4; All- they were offering me, if I Club Baseball 3, 4. behaved, had been made spumy, spoiled by all that surges in its đđđđđđ6 wake. I did not understand that But is this shucking off of class either. The subtext of the prize is really just in adapting the casual that if a lumpenish kid like I was phraseology of the well-to-do? … worked hard and was lucky, Nahh. It claims all affect – the instead of a jailbird, a hooker, a many dimensions of breathing radical, I could be a professor as articulated by a laugh, a who publishes critical essays scream, or say, the speed of about Emily Dickinson. speaking. It happens, this transmogrification of our class if đđđđđđ13 and when, you or me, has ceased From June Jordan’s “Poem About laughing heartily at our trauma; My Rights,” in Directed By it is if/when you and me desist in Desire: The Collected Poems of our delivery of long-form stories June Jordan (Copper Canyon or shouting a good joke from the Press, 2005). rolled-down window of a moving car or … We stop interrupting đđđđđđ14 and being interrupted by our A poem as writ, to insider and

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