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\"\"WAKING DREAMER<\/p>\n

Children playing out there in the snow
\ndon’t know twilight’s danger
\nthat car up on blocks might fall
\nthat slushball might hold a rock
\nthat gas bomb could all of a sudden blow
\nand the glue sniffers in that shack
\nmight be waking dreamers
\nwaking dreamers that
\ndon’t care about comin’ back
\nthey only dream about
\nbeing buried under the roof of their desires.<\/p>\n

Tryin’ to hold on to what you got,
\nput a roof over what you got left.
\nYou swallowed that river stone
\nand rock in your gut won’t spill.
\nIt’s a tumor that hurts,
\na tight-ass toxic knot,
\nand it’s the only thing that saves you
\nfrom lettin’ go of what you got.<\/p>\n

That waking dreamer dreams of white
\nand life ain’t sheet clean, crispy starched.
\nLife gets grimy, gritty, worn out grey,
\nlife gets that way when you bag it up.
\nHe’s sick of the dullness, he seeks the light.
\nHe lay down in the kind of snow that sings
\nand made himself a bird.
\nAnd just for a while his icy wings
\ncut the crust of his desires –
\nbut his gut pulls him down
\nand his white crystal roof melts in the spring.<\/p>\n

Tryin’ to hold on to what you got,
\nput a roof over what you got left.
\nYou swallowed that river stone
\nand rock in your gut won’t spill.
\nIt’s a tumor that hurts,
\na tight-ass toxic knot,
\nand it’s the only thing that saves you
\nfrom lettin’ go of what you got.<\/H3><\/p>\n

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\"Ahasiw<\/p>\n

AP: I follow my friend\u2019s trajectory in certain ways. Like Ahasiw, I become more of an adept at digital technologies with every passing year, and like Ahasiw my understanding of the what the Old People believed and understood grows deeper with time as well. I regret not spending more time discussing these things with him when he was alive, but more and more I hear him whispering these things in my ear more clearly as I seek to know more.<\/p>\n

“Animism is the reverse of anthropomorphism. Instead of attributing human characteristics to non-human aspects of the world, animists seek to learn and be guided by non-human methods of agency, sustainability and complex rhythm. Animist research traverses the complexities of multiple ecologies\u2014from the micro- to the macroscopic\u2014and sustains rich connections with them. As well as examining the interfolding dimensions of time and space, animist thinkers also delve into the vagaries and dangerous potential of the human animal with its tendency toward narcissistic social pathologies. Animists are perhaps most wary of their own human potential.”<\/em>
\nFrom his 2005 essay, \u201cSneakup and the Totentanz: All Our Relations Confronting the Dance of Death\u201d<\/h4>\n

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