October 20th
b'
Excerpted from Separation Energy
It is also included in my upcoming book, October.
October 20th
The temperature has dropped,\\xa0
the constructs have vanished,\\xa0
and the woman\\xa0
the lab assistant\\u2019s been seeing\\xa0
will not return his calls.
He shakes his head, saying,
The tensile strength\\xa0
of the bridge cables
will not hold\\xa0
if the vibration continues\\xa0
at these unprecedented levels. \\xa0
How will it continue\\xa0
to function, he wonders,\\xa0
if the party in power\\xa0
channels her resources\\xa0
towards some candidate\\xa0
of unknown potential?
Only the victim, he says,\\xa0
ear to the ground, will know\\xa0
and only after speech\\xa0
has failed him already.