FOSSIL 23
published by Black Lodge Press, 2007

YOU CAN NOT TEACH THE HUNGRY CHILD

Saturation is maintained early by the mother, whose vision is a permanent dentition into the soft flesh of the child. The child develops a fermentable understanding of self as 'infant acid'—a machine for decaying the enamels of adaptation and development. Sedating and numbing medications are then administered. In this state, the mother will drape her sight over hand, egg, foot, torso, elaborate snacks, the first pair of sisters, all the little cells demarcating and forming the borders between skinfolds and subjective judgment. This fusion of school age children and an active self-inhibitory system of negative feedback requires a gradual intake of lack in order to become a passive system of emotional deterioration. When completed, the ash of the child is shaken over the earth to form a broken pink circuit.

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"Fossil 23 chips hard at the shell of American language." - Jefferson Navicky, author of Map of the Second Person