CIRCUS ? an elephant lugubriously lilted is (a memory                 (There we've traveled barren lands                                                       and siphoned our last waters                                                                              (memory - oh, there                                                                   ends memory, there ends           the last of our days) to remember, as we speak it... )) here we enter a tethered tent [An animal house of paper] (or a house of papered animals) see, see, a performance said on paper see, see, a said performance on paper see, you see, the grand performance in a house of paper-folds Here, as it is, here [we lift elephants with technicolor lights, here bric-a-brac, sticks and stones we pull strings and trace a [performative (act)] "Au recherche d'un lieu - en fait, ici, ici soit les disparitions, soit les morts, qui sont-ils - la disparition du mort, ou le mort de la disparition?  Ici, ici Ca c'est notre milieu- NOUS SOMMES le milieu, n'est-ce pas? ... Je ne me souviens plus qu'il a dit: "au sommeil nous sommes-", mais comme le sommeil que je me souviens nous sommes toujours avec lui" ] the land is flattened into paper the water is siphoned by the paper                To speak, to say, in folds, that I, I weep, I speak, to you, as though                                     you speak, as though, I remember, here, to you, a memory, [                                                lugubrious, lilted, from the weight, such weight, housed in skin-folds] ... [?] [a memory]                      lugubriously lilted from the elephant is not the memory 11/11/07