2010 :: Issue 6/Spring :: Micro Essays
The Fall and Rise of Nobody’s America
(D–F)
Carlos Reyes
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In Search Of Lost and confounded Polymorphy or invisibility A seat on the bus |
Something Is Discovered Brown is not white, not yellow either The best defense is cunning silence Mind is mine, I think |
A Trick! Fathers are not fatherly Beauty is pain deep Equal schmequal |
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| Democracy | Where passion is king. | ||||
| DIY | What Jesus would do. | ||||
| Drugs | Spirituality for materialists. | ||||
| DSM-IV | Hysterical oscillation between mania and phobia. | ||||
| Durn Furriners | If you don’t like it here… | ||||
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Departures AGAIN BOTTOMLESS BEGINNINGS CURVING CEASELESSLY CURLING DAY DAY DAZZLE DAY |
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| Edison and Co. | The greatest American invention is the idea of America itself. | ||||
| Either | Or you’re against us. | ||||
| Elbow Room | Miss Manners: Any accidental contact with a stranger in public must be immediately followed by an apology. | ||||
| Empire | They seem to rise and fall faster and faster. | ||||
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Epistemology (See Ontology.) |
Seeing on TV is believing. | ||||
| Equality | Just don’t ask anyone how much they make. | ||||
| Exceptionalism | Proves the rule doesn’t apply to us. | ||||
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The Escapists ARTFUL BODY BORROWERS COUNTERPOINT CONTRARY CONSCIOUSNESSES DISGUISED DEVIANTS DIVERT DISASTER EVADE EXACTING EYES ESTABLISHING ESSENCES |
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| Social atomiser. | |||||
| Fast Food | If Americans could eat speed, they would. (They do.) | ||||
| Faster | It doesn’t matter where you’re going. | ||||
| Fat | American superego. | ||||
| Fear | The gospel of optimism. | ||||
| Feminism | Who did it confuse more, men or women? | ||||
| Food | Incorporated. | ||||
| Ford | Public transportation is un-American. | ||||
| Freedom | For export. | ||||
| Fundamentalism | So many wanting so badly to be good. | ||||
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Fluxus AIMLESS BOUNTIFUL BORDERLESSNESS CIRCLES CIRCLING CIRCLES DADA DO-NOTHINGS DANCE DEFENSELESSLY ERRANT ENCOUNTERS EXPRESS EVOLVING ENIGMAS FARFLUNG FRAGMENTS FATHER FATHOMLESS FORMS |
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