| : 8 . 3 : eye share a swollen ancient vein with mighty Cassandra -- my future is told but not believed eye have in me a pure germ of toxic validity a mental serpent senate protected by a secret underground army of social scientists & poetic anarchists engineered for warfare a bullet in the leg a knife wound to the eye & head ripped lower lip split tongue bleeding nose shattered rib & hip --- treasured souvenirs of a divergent reality |