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-</style><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">SAFETY
FACT 5</span><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><i><span>You cannot always hear a train coming,
especially high speed and quiet electric trains!</span></i><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>A
dead one doesn’t know anything anymore</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>She
doesn’t become a spirit with the right to hold </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>or
invite herself to tunnel through you</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>If
the train got me I’d be just like most people</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Most
speeds are high, most times cut in half</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Keep
coming back or reverting to undergrowth</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>and
other things people have built—</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>the
awkward but accurate position of “we”</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>destroying
“ourselves” to build the railroad</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>I
haven’t liked to pretend to be big</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>when
I know I’m small</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>listening
for the sounds of great violence approaching</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Listening
to you and the sound of movement through you</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>The
movement we belong to like a border</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>between
the planet’s hot history, magma states</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>soft
ball and thread stages and the way</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>when
the water touches us we roll up</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span> </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>We
leave the water more full of water than ourselves</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Sink
gently because when you’re relatively small</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>gravity
is not your most important force</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>Forces
will take ownership of our surfaces</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>and
our one day dead material </span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>bursting with
lionfish-like lights</span><span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"><span> </span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;
margin-left:0in;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom:
.01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><b style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"><span>Kate Schapira</span></b><span style="font-family: tahoma,sans-serif;"> is the author of <i>TOWN</i> (Factory School, Heretical Texts, 2010), <i>The Bounty: Four Addresses</i> (forthcoming from Noemi Press before
year's end), and two more books forthcoming in 2012 from Stockport Flats and
Horseless Press, as well as chapbooks from Flying Guillotine, Horseless,
Rope-A-Dope and Cy Gist Presses, and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in
Providence, RI, where she co-curates the Publicly Complex Reading Series and
teaches writing to college students and 4th grade scientists.</span></font><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p>
-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>