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Two women wearing traditional Korean dresses posed for pictures at Gyeongbokgung palace in central Seoul, South Korea: photo by Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse, 2 March 2016
though we don't even know it, because we can't wake up, we think our databank has been depleted,we can't stop or help thinking about their terrible elections, we're total wrecks, but we can still pretend
here on the hunted haunted expense of spirit in a waste of shame highway, the long bloody cruel
so that the onrushing blind shitmobiles appear at the edge of the traparound us, in the walls, permeating and coalescing, getting into the dry rot, its mother
the mass of interwoven filamentous maternal hyphae tangled underfoot and crawling
and climbing into over and through everything, here by the hunted haunted expense of spirit in a waste
of shame highway, in a sodden midden beneath the overarching
the Hermes of the plant world, the winged messenger of sunken planet
worlds, those worlds over there near that fallen limb, under that dark branch, beneath those
bent boughs, as the rain comes down, the invisible dancing spores, the fungus, creating cell by cell
the worlds in which it expresses itself through us when we breathe it in, stir
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Anti-abortion protesters demonstrated at the Supreme Court in Washington, where the justices heard a major abortion case from Texas: photo by Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times, 2 March 2016
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Fawzeyah Shalan, a Palestinian, held her son Mahmoud Shalan at his funeral near Ramallah. He was killed by Israeli forces after allegedly trying to stab an Israeli soldier.: photo by Nasser Nasser/Associated Press, 2 March 2016
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Migrants hold a baby as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey. Europe has now offered Greece financial aid to ease the cost of caring for the migrants.: photo by Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse, 2 March 2016
![Kiev's subway staff waits for female passengers in order to offer them flowers ahead of International Women's Day in Kiev, Ukraine]()
Kiev’s subway staff waits for female passengers in order to offer them flowers ahead of International Women’s Day in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters, 2 March 2016
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Kiev’s subway staff waits for female passengers in order to offer them flowers ahead of International Women’s Day in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters, 2 March 2016
![A woman reacts while walking among the ruins of damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the southeastern Turkey Kurdish town of Cizre, near the border with Syria and Iraq.]()
A woman reacts while walking among the ruins of damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria and Iraq: photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP, 2 March 2016
![A woman reacts while walking among the ruins of damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the southeastern Turkey Kurdish town of Cizre, near the border with Syria and Iraq.]()
A woman reacts while walking among the ruins of damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria and Iraq: photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP, 2 March 2016
![Blind and visually impaired Palestinian students walk down the stairs at a school, where they are taught English through song and music, at a school in the West Bank city of Hebron]()
Blind and visually impaired Palestinian students walk down the stairs at a school, where they are taught English through song and music, in the West Bank city of Hebron: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 2 March 2016
![Blind and visually impaired Palestinian students walk down the stairs at a school, where they are taught English through song and music, at a school in the West Bank city of Hebron]()
Blind and visually impaired Palestinian students walk down the stairs at a school, where they are taught English through song and music, in the West Bank city of Hebron: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 2 March 2016
![Residents Return To Turkish Town Of Cizre After Curfew...CIZRE, TURKEY - MARCH 02: A boy jumps between sofas in his ruined house on March 2, 2016 in Cizre, Turkey. Turkish authorities scaled down a 24-hour curfew imposed on the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre in southeast Turkey, nearly three weeks after declaring the successful conclusion of military operations there. The curfew was lifted at 5 a.m., allowing residents to return to their conflict-stricken neighborhoods for the first time since December 14. But it will remain in effect between 7:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. Residents began trickling back at first light, their vehicles loaded with personal belongings and, in some cases, children. (Photo by Cagdas Erdogan/Getty Images)]()
A boy jumps between sofas in his ruined house in Cizre, Turkey. Turkish authorities scaled down a 24-hour curfew imposed on the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre in southeast Turkey, nearly three weeks after declaring the successful conclusion of military operations there: photo by Cagdas Erdogan via FT Photo Diary, 2 March 2016
![Residents Return To Turkish Town Of Cizre After Curfew...CIZRE, TURKEY - MARCH 02: A boy jumps between sofas in his ruined house on March 2, 2016 in Cizre, Turkey. Turkish authorities scaled down a 24-hour curfew imposed on the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre in southeast Turkey, nearly three weeks after declaring the successful conclusion of military operations there. The curfew was lifted at 5 a.m., allowing residents to return to their conflict-stricken neighborhoods for the first time since December 14. But it will remain in effect between 7:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. Residents began trickling back at first light, their vehicles loaded with personal belongings and, in some cases, children. (Photo by Cagdas Erdogan/Getty Images)]()
A boy jumps between sofas in his ruined house in Cizre, Turkey. Turkish authorities scaled down a 24-hour curfew imposed on the mainly Kurdish town of Cizre in southeast Turkey, nearly three weeks after declaring the successful conclusion of military operations there: photo by Cagdas Erdogan via FT Photo Diary, 2 March 2016
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Demonstrators from Indian Youth Congress (IYC) burn an effigy of Indian education minister Smriti Irani during a protest march near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Hundreds of activists gathered to protest and express solidarity for Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad who was found hanging at a hostel in January this year.: photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters. 2 March 2016
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Demonstrators from Indian Youth Congress (IYC) burn an effigy of Indian education minister Smriti Irani during a protest march near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Hundreds of activists gathered to protest and express solidarity for Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad who was found hanging at a hostel in January this year.: photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters. 2 March 2016
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New Commander of Resolute Support forces and United States forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General John Nicholson, attends a change of command ceremony in Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 2 March 2016
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New Commander of Resolute Support forces and United States forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General John Nicholson, attends a change of command ceremony in Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 2 March 2016
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A security agent stands in between floors of the Great Hall of the People ahead of annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Beijing: photo by Damir Sagoli/Reuters, 2 March 2016
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A security agent stands in between floors of the Great Hall of the People ahead of annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Beijing: photo by Damir Sagoli/Reuters, 2 March 2016
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A security guard patrols at a construction site in front of Petronas Twin Towers, center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: photo by Joshua Paul/AP, 2 March 2016
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A security guard patrols at a construction site in front of Petronas Twin Towers, center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: photo by Joshua Paul/AP, 2 March 2016
![Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew members prepares to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan]()
Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew members prepares to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan: photo by Krill Kudryavtsev/AP, 2 March 2016
Two women wearing traditional Korean dresses posed for pictures at Gyeongbokgung palace in central Seoul, South Korea: photo by Ed Jones/Agence France-Presse, 2 March 2016
Two crows scrapping over flotsam, down there in the gathering dark, making it impossible to forget
the sidewalk exchange earlier with the polite young black Witness who told me God is going to come down
and take everything away and lift everybody up and make everybody high I said
O looked down saw two mushrooms emerging at the base of a sycamore
we evolved from mushrooms, in an overlapping mosaic web of cells that wrapt and enclosed
us and is still with us, stealthy, always accumulating, holding things together, spreading we evolved from mushrooms, in an overlapping mosaic web of cells that wrapt and enclosed
and extending itself below the ground as the pervasive surface evil spreads above, salvific, hidden
savings account we didn't know we had, databank of species and responses, invasive, remedial, all
hail the reparative fungi
which protect and enclose us and creep and crawl around and beneath us every secondsavings account we didn't know we had, databank of species and responses, invasive, remedial, all
hail the reparative fungi
here on the hunted haunted expense of spirit in a waste of shame highway, the long bloody cruel
stupid refusal or omission of the requirement to become a human being road, the bait unreasonably swallowed
over and over, as though by one starving, then once taken in impossible to digest, but we can still pretend
to speak publically, even though we're pretty sure no one hears us, still we can turn, we can
slowly very slowly turn our heads on our broken necks so that the onrushing blind shitmobiles appear at the edge of the trap
created by the field of vision, warning us just in time turn around and study the life of fungi
we can turn, we can turn and live with fungi -- the sporedust is everywherethe mass of interwoven filamentous maternal hyphae tangled underfoot and crawling
and climbing into over and through everything, here by the hunted haunted expense of spirit in a waste
of shame highway, in a sodden midden beneath the overarching
redwood, thin small fingers inveigling their way into and sending forth the vegetative
portion of the thallus of the fungus blooming, still submerged in another body yet
the mycelium running three quarters of an inch in one day under the groundportion of the thallus of the fungus blooming, still submerged in another body yet
the Hermes of the plant world, the winged messenger of sunken planet
bent boughs, as the rain comes down, the invisible dancing spores, the fungus, creating cell by cell
the worlds in which it expresses itself through us when we breathe it in, stir
it up, blow it round and round, unnoticeable to those in the great blind armoured shitmobiles, as they whoosh madly past
Anti-abortion protesters demonstrated at the Supreme Court in Washington, where the justices heard a major abortion case from Texas: photo by Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times, 2 March 2016
Fawzeyah Shalan, a Palestinian, held her son Mahmoud Shalan at his funeral near Ramallah. He was killed by Israeli forces after allegedly trying to stab an Israeli soldier.: photo by Nasser Nasser/Associated Press, 2 March 2016
Migrants hold a baby as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey. Europe has now offered Greece financial aid to ease the cost of caring for the migrants.: photo by Aris Messinis/Agence France-Presse, 2 March 2016
Kiev’s subway staff waits for female passengers in order to offer them flowers ahead of International Women’s Day in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters, 2 March 2016
Kiev’s subway staff waits for female passengers in order to offer them flowers ahead of International Women’s Day in Kiev, Ukraine: photo by Gleb Garanich/Reuters, 2 March 2016
"The descent beckons..."
A woman reacts while walking among the ruins of damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria and Iraq: photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP, 2 March 2016
A woman reacts while walking among the ruins of damaged buildings following heavy fighting between government troops and Kurdish fighters in the Kurdish town of Cizre in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Syria and Iraq: photo by Yasin Akgul/AFP, 2 March 2016
Blind and visually impaired Palestinian students walk down the stairs at a school, where they are taught English through song and music, in the West Bank city of Hebron: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 2 March 2016
Blind and visually impaired Palestinian students walk down the stairs at a school, where they are taught English through song and music, in the West Bank city of Hebron: photo by Ammar Awad/Reuters, 2 March 2016
Demonstrators from Indian Youth Congress (IYC) burn an effigy of Indian education minister Smriti Irani during a protest march near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi. Hundreds of activists gathered to protest and express solidarity for Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad who was found hanging at a hostel in January this year.: photo by Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters. 2 March 2016
New Commander of Resolute Support forces and United States forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General John Nicholson, attends a change of command ceremony in Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 2 March 2016
New Commander of Resolute Support forces and United States forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General John Nicholson, attends a change of command ceremony in Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 2 March 2016
A security agent stands in between floors of the Great Hall of the People ahead of annual sessions of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), in Beijing: photo by Damir Sagoli/Reuters, 2 March 2016
A security guard patrols at a construction site in front of Petronas Twin Towers, center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: photo by Joshua Paul/AP, 2 March 2016
A security guard patrols at a construction site in front of Petronas Twin Towers, center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: photo by Joshua Paul/AP, 2 March 2016
along with all the other floating spore cells
Soyuz TMA-18M space capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew members prepares to land in a remote area outside the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan: photo by Krill Kudryavtsev/AP, 2 March 2016