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Abracadabra. A poem by Mia Kang

  



for Erich and Patricia

 

List of things to banish

Can include words, people, theoretical apparatuses

Can take the form of a grocery list, a scientific experiment, or a manifesto

Can read like a personal ad of unwanting

Can summon aid to help with banishing

Can be uncertain of what will remain

Can have no positive mission statement

Can be written in a language other than language

Can circulate amongst FRIENDS ONLY

Can evade being imagined, written, embodied, archived

Can go like this

Can make itself irrelevant

Can include buildings, brushstrokes, and other abominations

Can mean my way of life is unlivable

Can mean my life is as yet unlived

Can mean I must become a menace to my enemies

Can undo futurity forever in favor of *******

Can remake futurity into someone who doesn’t recognize herself

Can punctuate the present like a cup of coffee or a Monday

Can be dreamed up and shot down and elongated

Can tell us something

Can include forms and fantasies, even the ones getting us by

Can instigate an interregnum

Can be unfinished

Can include hope hopefully

Can be blank

But don’t kid yourself

It isn’t

And it can’t include

History