Je su s Vane

an erasure of this post by Ron Silliman

The most
blaspheme._________________________________________________It is_____right
____________________________________________________________to make people crazy (literally)

_____________to deny
_________________________________________________violence

The Silliman clan was driven out
could not marry

disgusting?

__________we have seen the murders
____________________the survivors____________________________________________________________famous cowards
______________________________banned
_________________________________________________________________________________There is no middle ground.

_________________________________________________greased
____________________chain of logic
__________________________________________________________I see the hands of those who protested
____________________on the very guns

__________________________an online lynch mob
_________need not agree

_______yeah, we are still the nation
_______________with guns

the thuggish reaction
a trilogy
after multiple attempts_____________

___petitioning_______________revealing_________________________________________________jackboots tossing
______________________________________________________potato trucks

_________________________________________________you are shooting Lorca
____________________________________________________seemingly intelligent
__________________________part of this mob
hoping they enjoy the view

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But seriously, isn’t petitioning to have someone whose work is racist from a position of power within a professional organization a lot closer to, say, shutting down comments on a blog when they turn nasty than to burning books or killing people?

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