GRGR: Dark words (7 parts)

[Glenn Scheper]

O: only the three dingy scuffed-cream fi
tting back in the dingy room while the l
tting around this dingy yellow amphithea

 the day's mean, dismal losses could be 

rs and sleeves of drab wool. They want t
y children. Those drab un-dershorts of h
neck of his olive-drab T-shirt. Benzoin 
tely aware of her drab coat and cotton d
bones of gulls, a drab singlet, Wehrmach
r light from this drab sky. Here it is a
g pieces of olive-drab rocket, some upri
voy of four olive-drab vehicles dusting 
lpdrucken to some drab fat excuse for a 
at last, an olive-drab derelict tiny on 
n black and olive-drab, but which now lo
i-gas kits, olive-drab tins of Benzedrin
." Two more olive-drab agents have come 

but only a rather dull room, business ma
e that never gets dull, the eternal boot
nding it a little dull?" Oily Micro move
polis, that great dull zoo, as specimens
spend time with a dull and aging enginee

muffins across the dun pasture, among th
ed the scuffed and dun military going in
akhs, Kirghiz, and Dun-gans that terribl

down afternoon to dusk, hours of fucking
e point the brown dusk around him has be
s." Later, toward dusk, several enormous
 the best feeling dusk in a foreign city
owing up." Toward dusk, the black birds 
 twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation f
e movement in the dusk: Russian guardsme
nd old men in the dusk, waiting for a di
 loud clap in the dusk. "Come home, with
rtain hour of the dusk, like candleflame
ack there. It was dusk. Plowed fields, p
motorcycle at one dusk-heavy hour of the
ue green at leafy dusk. "Sure," replies 
 shivering in the dusk. Then he goes bac

 two across those dusky Afro-Scandinavia
olony without its dusky natives? Where's
 lies south those dusky natives, right? 

ed out two of the ebony balusters. Now, 
akbus through the ebony forests, wanderi
as dying like the ebony trees they were 
rman gold, carved ebony finger-stalls fr
silver bells with ebony handles are turn
nd a custom-built ebony case full of the
teel ruler and an ebony Empire chair. Sh

t, then?" Being enigmatic, won't answer 

k gray and rather faint. For some time h
ter, not here.... Faint washroom light b
ong these nights' faint and lusting coup
t on the beach. A faint babble of Englis
ht filtering very faint back through a b
g starlight and a faint glow over some t
 away vampires? A faint garlic smell rea
gner, the brasses faint and mocking, the
to warmer colors, faint shadows of thigh
 angles along the faint lines.... When h
e river, with the faint wheeze of an acc
ed, the light too faint, Morituri himsel
 All at once, two faint pools of light a
h there's still a faint odor of petrol a
. "Oh," comes his faint voice. "Oh, ho. 
 stops. For those faint hearts who first

o English dreams, foggy old heads, child
ng still a little foggy from that inject
r shore so green, foggy, and far away, g
rom the sea, on a foggy day. But in each

eyes, miasmata of foul breath, DeCoverle
rs, their breaths foul with hours-old fi
d, dry with fear, foul with idleness, fl
 penetrate and to foul? But out at the h
 black gob of the foul-smelling substanc

ops and the brown gloom, more worried no
 poised in winter gloom over these poor 
vulnerable to the gloom of this winter d
away into a white gloom. "How they persi
 that even in the gloom Slothrop can tel
very white in the gloom. "Why did you le
s, and a terminal gloom. You have to cro

 urns out on the gloomy stone loading do
n this to get so gloomy all so sudden, i

st out. It is the grim phoenix which cre
 The Ensign nods, grim, twisting half hi
oo, with only the grim sixth sense, as m
t patterns," more grim than she really w
s a little askew, grim old governess, su
nnia, through the grim rationalizing of 
sent, though only grim smiles from the o
 coppers, looking grim. Security. Her ma

 snow beat at the grimy windows? How far

cigarette pocket hidden, not that this w
s what seeps out hidden speakers in the 
-deck guesses to hidden microphones: "Wa
NG 3 In silence, hidden from her, the ca
he firing sites, hidden in the woods and
rl he never saw, hidden always in the bl
hole jar, nearly hidden in the ambient t
rings, gasketry, hidden smokeshriek lini
ich are securely hidden certain early-Wa
d systematically hidden from the likes o
 part of his own hidden life under inter
th so much death hidden in the sky, out 
nd though he was hidden, she saw Pudding
heir arrangement hidden from the occupie
ethod of finding hidden centers, inertia
But in the Zone, hidden inside the summe
s though they be hidden from him, will k
the time for the hidden shapes he knew w
n they were well hidden. A late summer, 
egun to crack. A hidden projector threw 
ill... isn't the hidden machinery easier
, others largely hidden by the dunes, Na
s it. Someone, a hidden friend at "The W
. Slothrop waits hidden behind the Rolan
solemn girl half-hidden inside her cloud
the wires into a hidden ultraviolet baby
atent wish, some hidden tithe out of you
so he has to use hidden zippers to get h
 is incompletely hidden in the weeds at 

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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