IV

Sound the alarm, get an ambulance, ready a statement: for reactive critics, for the OCI, for the rest of the back end
In these museums to living history, lined with the artifacts of threat, risk management is a precondition for every colour of self-defeat
Mandate piled on mandate, verdicts stacked high, dust covered and time worn, signed by solicitors general and bound by library services
A mounting legacy of heroic solutions and failed actions that can't be normalized and interpreted away, used to placate all the lives shamed and denied
Custom is the greatest of weavers: devoid of useful memory and locked in fixed movements
No small madness confusing symptoms with cause
A convenience of definition
Condemnation narrowed to a point
Better to drill it in
Benign as a bullet, meanings are inseparable from purposes