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Pandemic
03:13
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Pandemic
lights out
laptop screen
Pandemic
yea, I'm not going back
to my regular life
my regular wife
I quit all of that
turn out the lights
I'm inside the house
my drinks are to go and my groceries delivered
I work from my laptop
I'll be here for dinner
pandemic
I'm not going back to that regular life
I'm not going back
leave me with my laptop
I cut out the lights
I'll be posted up you don't know if I'm home
the lights are all out so
just leave me alone
not talking to you face to face
we just zoom
background might change but
I'm in the same room
Pandemic
deposit deposit deposit deposit deposit deposit
I'm talking through my mask so
listen up
just deposit deposit deposit deposit deposit deposit
you don't need to see me
I don't need to see you
send me my files
just keep it moving
you saving lives?
yea me neither
so don't waste my time
lights out
laptop screen
pandemic
you don't need to see me
I cut out the video
leave me in my laptop
I'll see you in chat now
lights are all out now
pandemic
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2. |
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On the night of March 14 2020, in an apartment in Brooklyn,
Rana Zoe, author of an unfinished novel titled Vindication of Eternity, and studious reader of WEB DuBois' short stories and science fiction, dreamt of a long game Spades.
in the morning she was too sick to take the train to Ascend Academy
to teach her classes,
English and creative writing, Butler and Borges, DuBois and Dostoevsky.
at the hospital she tried to get a test
there was no test
they gave her an inhaler and an aspirin
On March 19 she called the ambulance
in a rush
doctors and nurses
take her to get intubated
In technical terms she can hear them
worry about the patient
Weeks in the hospital, worse and worse,
in the ICU
somehow she can feel everything and
it feels like waiting and waiting
and silently with her eyes closed Rana Zoe
Ms Munglin as the students called her
thought of a prayer from the karan,.
said silently to the universe, in her mind
I am the author of Vindication of Eternity
just give me 1 yr I want to finish this book it's almost done
I can see it in my mind, writing it out,
everyday in the train, I just need more time
Grant me that year. You to whom belong the centuries and all time.
She dozed off and when she woke up
She heard a doctor say It's Exactly Noon right now
check the ventilator It's not looking good
We are worried about lung failure
And just like that
the physical universe stopped
the machines stopped beeping
a door that was opening stopped creaking
and Rana Zoe, completely coherent in her mind, realized she could barely see
through her half closed eyes
a nurse stood in the door seemed to be frozen in time.
Rana thought: I'm in hell, I'm dead.
She thought: Maybe I've gone crazy instead.
Then she sees the notebooks of her novel in her mind.
she starts flipping through remembering
Not just the overall narrative
About Black astronomers in America
charting new formulas
For the axis of the north stars
Vega and polaris
But she remembers key phrases and whole paragraphs
She slept
She woke up
The nurse still there unmoving
Rana starts re-writing
editing
changing sentences, incantantation,
and the tone of the narrator
months of writing and rewriting
laughing at the folly of her secondary characters,
who believe, despite everything
in the myths of America,
until seasons pass and she has written
an American masterpiece
the novel of millenia
memorized and chosen every word, every sentence
And then
She hears the door creak
and feels her lungs go empty
she hears the machines beep again
Rana Zoe died April 23rd at 12:02PM
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3. |
Crash
02:18
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Crash
o fuck
it goes crash
they go crash
we go crash
I go crash
bought a house in 2018
real estate goes crash
uhuh
it goes crash
we go crash
Market goes crash
nasdaq goes crash
oil barrels negative
they went crash
California driving south on the 101 to santa cruz
spinout on the highway
car goes crash
got married knew she wasn't right for me
we got a kid
but the whole thing goes crash
working all night
on my laptop
running simulations and
my laptop goes crash
my whole screen goes crash
I go crash
and the beat goes crash
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4. |
Frontline (Interlude)
05:22
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5. |
Essential Business
02:06
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6. |
README txt
01:42
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README txt
open up the commandline for this one
I want to see the black bar white cursor for this one
this is for the scientists
the hackers
the maskers
the nurses
the doctors
the data mappers
and everybody staying home on your laptop
you don't have to read the readme file
yea you can skip this one
No windows
No graphics
Let's go
script it up
I'm not just clicking
on the screen no
I'm making shit up
grabbing code from github
download and run a dll
right click and unblock
need a function plug it in
yea
this is for the scientists
the hackers
the maskers
the nurses
the doctors
the data mappers
and everybody staying home on your laptop
you don't have to read the readme file
yea you can skip this one
yea my laptop is the lab
and the kitchen
where I stir it up
with the wrist wrist motion
inverse kinematics if you need
a guide from A to B
go get some physics for your
physics engines
and
if you having hardware problems I feel
bad for you son
how about you run a solver
0010100111100101
yea
count it up
catch me in the cloud
download the code
0010100111100101
you read me
this is for the scientists
the hackers
the maskers
the nurses
the doctors
the data mappers
and everybody staying home on your laptop
you don't have to read the readme file
yea you can skip this one
No windows
No graphics
Let's go
script it up
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Touring Machine New Jersey
Bilingual (English/French) multidisciplinary person who makes things, living near Trenton New Jersey, w/ roots in DC,
Brooklyn, Detroit + San Francisco. Pro-Black. Pro-Computers. Pro-House music. Ambivalent about hip hop.
Touring Machine was the primary rap vocalist in 2013 art film Good Stock on the Dimension Floor by collective HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?
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