Chapter Twenty Nine: The Lies and the Archives

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching,

of loving. What you have captured on film

is captured forever . . . it remembers little

things, long after you have 

forgotten everything.

Aaron Siskind

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I shall never truly see
The lies that had been told to me

Collective in its own account

The death of the flamboyant one

Dressed like the lies it would

Embraced in the tactical blues

Of sadness, peril, capably astute

In the business of life,

the wonder of captivation

It seems revealed, 

yet totally concealed

It came straightforward

In rhythm and rhymes

The order of sight

Captured by the playful mind

The most sorrowful mistake

Committed in the battle at stake

It took evidentiary matter

In films, in plot arcs

In the form of archives

The imprint of a man

In the soul and in the heart

Motionless, but purely divine

To take a catastrophe

In the matter at hand

Of forces and curvilinear tones

That had profoundness

And endless goal

To destroy the property

Of the mystery of time

Darkness prevailed

But light is totally unchanged

But to see, light must be

There are nothing seen

But the blindness to sin

No capability to desire

A freedom one must strive

Yet, in death and voidness

No stars ever illuminated

The dirt of the past

The polaroid of sadness

Quickly, to be pursued

In the hands of the might

To fearfully destroy

Anything with toil

A nebula of sorts

Scattered by the tort

No legal defenses were sought

I must say, no evidence

That can be presented

In the daylight of dreams

For a fair Judge to see

By books or any form of angels

To capture through the lens, 

Careless, knowingly

The verb of love

And the noun of humility

Glorious, overwhelmingly

Thief! Robbery!

Undeclared happening

The message of evil

Deep in the film

Of squalor, too neglected

Shot in the middle

Of all painful causes

But brutally deserved

We must all remain

Say no more

Amen, amen!

Into the Verse,

by Quiche Lorraine

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