THIS AMERICAN CARNAGE, 2028

                     I

“…Now arrives the time of action, 

a frozen SonderKommando 

marches the windswept 

plains of Nebraska. Detroit 

sprawls glorious freedoms 

and our dreams define 

the disease of national pride. 

Meet me in loyalty, unstoppable

in every city far and wide, 

the breath of life almighty: we will not fail. 

Living is striving, we are the struggle…/…”

…we cut the beards / scream the Lithuanian anthem from atop a pile of cardboard cut-outs / applauding the effort / on a garage forecourt we take a crowbar to the skulls of the communist functionaries / such sport the tarmac supports / special work in rear areas / set the native population against the others / watch the well-dressed burn…

(ASIDE) (Please see me standing, 

my children singing 

to themselves. 

half-hymns, 

half-gibberish show tunes. 

come to breakfast, 

sit next to me, 

washed blond hair 

stiffly tufted in the

summer garden.)

II

“…/…This American carnage 

stops right here. We will 

harness the energies, a new 

national pride will stir 

our souls. The gangs 

and the drugs flushed 

with cash, one heart, one home. 

We must protect our pyramids, 

our God bless you industries…/….”

…these were internal disputes and spontaneous retributions / I heard the sound of machine guns all night / saw the huge iron bar /the killer standing in the horseshit / admired them quietly stepping forward / and their caved in skulls / poured into breathing pits / separating the living from the dead…

(ASIDE) (water for bones

whatever you might think

the children are suffering

in the heat

the boat sinks onwards 

into Venice’s central square

St. Marks, or 

Somewhere else

similarly religious)

III

“…/…Really we do it without like, 

the musical instruments. This is the 

only musical: the mouth. And hopefully 

the brain attached to the mouth. Right? 

The brain, more important than the mouth, 

is the brain. The brain is much more important…/…”

….we / 5.9.41 Ukmerge 1,23 Jews, 1849 Jewesses, 1737 Jewish children 4,709 / 25.8-6.9.41 Mopping up in: 

Rasainiai 16 Jews, 412 Jewesses, 415 Jewish children 843 / Georgenburg (Yurburg) All Jews, all Jewesses, all Jewish children 412 / 2.10.41 Zagare633 Jews, 1,107 Jewesses, 496 Jewish children (as these Jews were being led away a mutiny rose, which was however immediately put down; 150 Jews were shot immediately; 7 partisans wounded) 2,236 / Today I can confirm that our objective, to solve the Jewish problem for Lithuania, has been achieved by EK 3 / In Lithuania there are no more Jews, apart from Jewish workers and their families / The distance between from the assembly point to the graves was on average 4 to 5 Km. / I consider the Jewish action more or less terminated as far as Einsatzkommando 3 is concerned / I am of the view that the sterilization programme of the male worker Jews should be started immediately so that reproduction is prevented / If despite sterilization a Jewess becomes pregnant she will be liquidated… 

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