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Consent
06:48
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i want you
i want to
i want you
i want to
i want you
i want to
I do.
I was thinking penetrating thoughts about you
It will be good, we can do it, and we need it.
It can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back.
I was thinking penetrating thoughts about you
It will be good, we can do it, and we need it
I miss you too, in a heart-aching kind of way.
All of it shall be mortgageable and bound as security -
It can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back.
I do.
I just took care of your daughter.
* * *
Declare your consent
The missing you hurts
You’ll be in it soon
What a way to feel
Who gives this woman
* * *
i want you
i want to
All of it shall be mortgageable -
I just took care of your daughter
and bound as security -
she said you could take a picture
i want you
i want to
I just took care of your daughter and made sure she was safe
she was so in love with me that night
I ask you to state your intentions
All of it shall be mortgageable and bound as security -
it can be taken from me, even from the shirt on my back -
during my lifetime and after this lifetime,
this day and forever.
I just took care of your daughter and made sure she was safe
she said you could take a picture
she looks dead lmao
* * *
I do.
I was thinking penetrating thoughts about you
It will be good, we can do it, and we need it.
I miss you too, in a heart-aching kind of way
I’m really looking forward to adding to it
All of it can be mortgageable and bound as security -
it can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back -
during my lifetime and after this lifetime
this day and forever
How have you been holding out on me with that picture for so long?
she said you could take a picture
oh i am looking at all my pictures of you
You don’t even want to know what I’m imagining you doing right now
she was so in love with me that night
Declare your consent before God
I just took care of your daughter when she was drunk
* * *
This original amount, I accept upon myself and my heirs after me -
It can be paid from the best part of my property and possessions
that I own under all the heavens.
All of it shall be mortgageable and bound as security -
it can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back -
during my lifetime and after this lifetime -
from this day and forever.
even from the shirt on my back
she said you could take a picture
I refuse to get excited
Will you accept children lovingly from God?
Declare your consent before God and the church.
I felt knowing what was right
she looks dead lmao
i just took care of your daughter
but i also know we are equal to almost any…
she said you could take a picture
Who gives this woman?
text:
love letters I wrote in 2006
love letters my father wrote in 1962
The Catholic Rite of Marriage
Traditional Jewish Ketubah (Wedding contract)
text messages by Trent Mays and Lucas Herrington,
used as evidence in the Steubenville Rape Trial, 2013
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Inhale.
Take a deep breath.
Draw in as much air as possible.
Don't sound obvious.
Avoid gasping.
Raise your tongue.
Position the back of your tongue so it touches your soft palate.
When the mouth is closed the tongue comes in close contact with the roof
A curtain of flesh, the soft palate
The throat and mouth in distinct chambers.
Exert pressure.
Let out a groan.
The ventriloquial drone.
text culled by JENA OSMAN and TED HEARNE
from “How to throw your voice” (www.wikihow.com/Throw-Your-Voice) and Ventriloquism (1906) by Charles Henry Olin
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No mouth.
The very heart.
text by Jena Osman
adapted from First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti 435 U.S. 765 (1978)
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a narrowly tailored remedy to that interest.
Apostoli
--to use the words of one Justice, that is ventriloquist-speak.
I would say that it is more like surrogate speech.
JUSTICE GINSBERG: Who is the "you" ?
Apostoli
people think representatives are being bought, okay?
Apostoli, Alleluia.
the line dissolves on practical application.
Apostoli
it is said the distinction requires the use of magic words
the words of the statute were "any person,"
Apostoli
as if we have an unbroken amount of years
we gave some really weird interpretations
— the Earth is not —
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Why don't you tell us now.
We will give you time for rebuttal.
[Laughter]
JUSTICE SCALIA: Don't keep us in suspense.
[Laughter]
they want winners
if it has to lose, the answer is yes
they want winners
presumably as a poison pill
they want winners
individuals are more complicated than that
we couldn't sever it based on the language
there is no place where an ongoing chill is more dangerous
these corporations have a lot of money
variis linguis Apostoli, Alleluia.
we get to that when we get there.
you are not talking about the railroad barons and the rapacious trusts
they wear a scarlet letter that says "C"
but it is a nightmare that Congress endorsed.
is that a yes?
is that a yes?
text by Jena Osman
culled from Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
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What I thought was a sudden chip in
the metal was actually a drop of
water one foot in the front of the
metal, my eye joining the two in a
simple surgery
by Jena Osman
(from "The Character")
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when you hear that distant sounding drone,
you know you have your mouth as it should be
text by Jena Osman
culled from Ventriloquism (1906) by Charles Henry Olin
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7. |
Ripple
10:30
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I.
The marine that engaged from Post 7 was unable to determine the occupants of the vehicle due to the reflection of the sun coming off the windshield.
II.
due to the
III.
of the sun
IV.
The marine that engaged
V.
determine
VI.
the reflection of the sun
VII.
occupants
VIII.
The marine that engaged from Post 7 was unable to determine the occupants of the vehicle due to the reflection of the sun coming off the windshield.
Text from an internal U.S. Dept. of Defense military cable describing an incident that took place on July 22, 2005 in Fallujah, Iraq, released in 2010 by WikiLeaks and its media partners.
http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/id/0DB5B033-3131-4080-822E-8B0FAD1C1764/
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you were always fair
you were almost always kind
weren't you?
you always reached out your hand
you almost always refused to lie
didn't you?
you wouldn't shut your shining eyes
would you?
(Ted Hearne)
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9. |
Privilege 2. casino
02:13
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it's almost like a casino
you're looking at the guy winning,
you're looking at the guy who pulled the lever
and all the bells go off
and all the coins are coming
out of a one-armed bandit
and you're thinking
that could be me.
i'll play by those rules.
(David Simon, from an interview on Bill Moyers Journal, broadcast April 17, 2009)
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flashing window
empty street
burning tv song
flashing window
empty street
burning tv song
flashing window
empty street
burning tv song
stay
(Ted Hearne)
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Privilege 4. they get it
02:25
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we pretend to need them
we pretend to educate the kids
but we don’t
and they're not foolish
they get it
(David Simon, from an interview on Bill Moyers Journal, broadcast April 17, 2009)
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we cannot leave
this land of our ancestors
on this earth
we are being killed by the monster
on this earth
shuku shuku (the sound of the train)
i want to get on the train
to get on the train in the morning
i want
oh mother, it's leaving me behind!
("As'kwaz'ukuhamba," traditional Xhosa anti-apartheid song, translation by Patiswa Nombona and Mollie Stone, 2003)
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