index 184, Wikileaks

Whales, elephants of the deep with fins the size of sheds and flukes prepared to consecrate nearby trollers. Queen of clubs, thin, black hair razored at edges slinking hats and vests, Fells Point. A hat, Napoleonic or Yellowbeard typhoon, skink darting palmettos, hummingbird at Roth’s feeder hanging above the lake house deck just before, just before its earth curved beak injects ink into twilight, just before the tightly wound shatters the silence, just before wings crackle and refuel themselves, of Italian cabinet members misbehaving with washer women, just before a tumor threatened civilization as we know it, just before the curtain was made of iron, just before we found the bomb and the bomb found the money, or was it the other way around? with new technology: tape recorders, answering machines and Pentagon Papers; governments took things for granted, until things got out of hand Most are regrouping, reincorporating, in hopes of positive returns on their investments. You didn’t think they were complete idiots, now, did you?