Perhaps the rule is meant to say to us, “If you find yourself having to choose between killing an innocent person and preserving your own life, you have already chosen wrong.” Perhaps the rule is meant to warn us that the contours of darkness and war are often indistinct—and by the time we see that war has swallowed us whole, it’s usually too late.
— Rosa Brooks on the trial of Dražen Erdemović
false bottoms
splitting time btwn 2 worlds
but most of it in the one
where the Hwasong-12s
don’t make contact
some calculus: solve for a
loc., missile type, range, apogee* /a(1+e)
American Apocalyptica
makes me sick & i’m contributing
another email from M
over there people are so desensitized –
she gets shy abt her English
& I love helping her
so idk do u always
have to carry the vulgar
anthropological piece
around w/ u
there’s asymmetry in that too
at the end of the Anabasis
the army reaches the Black Sea
& turns back. the choice
to keep up the confused war
doesn’t rly feel like a choice
& that’s the point
or maybe its what quinta
wrote in a tweet. yr trying
to read grief into violence again
pulling numbly @ its threads
etc etc