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| A (redacted) poem for the torture report | A (redacted) poem for the torture report |
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| NOFORN | NOFORN |
| What are we to do after the white noise,after the wallings, the rough takedownsand deprivations of sleep, nudity, rectalrehydration and rectally infused feedings,the President’s daily briefings, learnedhelplessness, the outsourced psychologyconducted in secret detention facilities,black sites and gray sites redactedin one country after another? | What are we to do after the white noise,after the wallings, the rough takedownsand deprivations of sleep, nudity, rectalrehydration and rectally infused feedings,the President’s daily briefings, learnedhelplessness, the outsourced psychologyconducted in secret detention facilities,black sites and gray sites redactedin one country after another? |
| And what are we to think of █████,the redactions of our times, the missingvideotapes, nasogastric tubes and mockexecutions, those shackled to the walland given buckets for human waste,the hoods, the restraints, the syllabiof CIA interrogation training courses,the statements about how the programcould provide “█████████████”? | And what are we to think of █████,the redactions of our times, the missingvideotapes, nasogastric tubes and mockexecutions, those shackled to the walland given buckets for human waste,the hoods, the restraints, the syllabiof CIA interrogation training courses,the statements about how the programcould provide “█████████████”? |
| I went about my life. I stood in lineand ordered coffee when it was my turnto consider the “acceptable lower ambienttemperatures,” the ███████████,the reduced caloric intake, the continual seriesof near drownings, being awake for 180 hours,the conditions in COBALT, BLACK, and VIOLETlike ██████████████████,like something I don’t have to think about. | I went about my life. I stood in lineand ordered coffee when it was my turnto consider the “acceptable lower ambienttemperatures,” the ███████████,the reduced caloric intake, the continual seriesof near drownings, being awake for 180 hours,the conditions in COBALT, BLACK, and VIOLETlike ██████████████████,like something I don’t have to think about. |
| I once carried a weapon and kicked in doors,put men in prison with the words I wrote down,with a nation sewn into the flag on my shoulder.I can hear the men howling from their chainsand wreckage, no matter how much is █████,They are calling across the world, calling to America. |