“the situation”
“the situation”
“the situation”
“the situation is only what it is”
“the situation holds on to itself”
“the situation paints itself as inevitable”
“the situation is forever”
“the situation is only interested in its
own well-being”
“the situation does not think twice”
“the situation cannot do it”
“the situation does not want to”
“the situation would if it could”
“the situation isn’t half as bad as they
say”
“the situation tosses everything into the
garbage that doesn’t belong to it”
“the situation incarcerates everybody in
its realm”
“the situation does not sing”
“the situation does not argue its case”
“the situation will go away”
“the situation must go away”
“the situation lets nobody off the hook”
“the situation sits on itself”
“the situation continues to invade
territories”
“the situation falls victim to the same
collateral damage that it inflicts”
“the situation does not invite self
examination”
“the situation is an accumulation of its
own past”
“the situation can’t stand itself”
“the situation necessitates longing”
“the situation routinely shoots itself in
the foot”
“if the situation could understand itself
it would not continue”
“the situation is hungry for more”
“the situation’s future can only be other
than itself”
“the situation forever boasts questionable
accomplishments”
“the situation… no!”
“the situation overwhelms or underwhelms”
“the situation the situation”
“situation”
“the situation”
“the situation”
“yes”
“the situation”
“the situation”
“situation?”
“which situation?”
“the”
“what? no”
“the situation”
“the situation has no other goal than
itself”
“the results of the situation result from
the characteristics of the situation”
“the situation requires all lives to be in
it”
“to be alive is to be in the situation”
“all together are the situation”
“the hidden obvious is the situation”
“the situation is the end effect of history”
“the situation is what has us and surrounds
us”
“the obvious cannot be admitted therefore
it is the obvious”
“the situation is not something but
everything”
“words transplanted like onions from their
original sprouts
cannot say the situation”
“the situation says itself in everything”
“the situation is life acquiring death”
“the situation is blind to itself”
“the blind situation acquires blind death”
“the situation is characterized by its
blindness”
“its death is characterized by its
blindness”
“the situation is everything and all”
“all together are the situation [again]”
“all together are blind”
“all together’s death is blind”
“the blind death of the all together is the
obvious”
“the situation implies the possibility of
revolt against it”
“the situation is what it is only as long
as we allow it to be so”
“the muscles that make the situation
function
are the same muscles that must take it down”
—Peter Schumann, from Bread & Sentences (Burlington: Fomite, 2015).
Lines cited here as a found "archi-poem" are from
a series of charcoal sketches for a 2014 performance called "The Situation", included as illustrations in an amazing book of aphorisms (“neither
fiction, nor poetry, nor philosophy”) gathered from the working notebooks of the
founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater.
Please obtain this book, and read it now!
The situation demands it!
http://sales.breadandpuppet.org/books/books/bread-and-sentences
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