The meaning depends on where you start the timeline. Who shot first, who got here first, who excels at propelling us into a fearsome future, all greenhouses and teeth and forgetting all part of the project from moment to monument to countermonument. Build a museum tolerant of bulldozed graves of the fallen, the murdered, the family stones older than any state. every Never Forget is a command to remember this, and nothing else In all the unsettling settled lands, winners prefer not to remember how they exceeded, but they do like when we never forget the cost. When you read their collected works, feel the difference on your neck between being asked to know only what you have been told and forget which stories are your own. bathakri entoum, re-member all yourselves to remember this, and forget what's been narrated into flesh, into pavement and remember to forget how you have been dismantled and remember how history's champs narrate barely-strung shadow puppet plays against The Wall as if to pretend Here It Begins: from wall to walls, It Begins: from wall to walls, from camp to camps to encampments, on every corner of every place that you've ever lived.
Memory Work
after Lucille