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TitleDaytime Paranoia Becomes a Joke at Night
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PublisherFree City Collective
PlaceSan Francisco
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Date 110/1/1967
Date 2n.d., ca.
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MediumBroadside
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CatalogFC-1-009
CollectionSOLA-o; SS-o (MH)
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FC-1-009
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Abstract
Reads as a fevered prose poem of urban dread and countercultural refusal, contrasting the deadened routines of downtown work, media fear, and official paranoia with a visionary language of night, risk, grace, and collective release. Its jagged shifts—from Cleveland race panic and atomic dread to “Risk Food” and “Risk Roof”—suggest a world in which the administered realities of wage labor, news, and authority are already collapsing into absurdity. The mysterious letterforms and occult-like graphic framing deepen the page’s prophetic tone, as though the sheet were proposing an alternate script for those trying to escape the living death of ordinary America.
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Daytime Paranoia Becomes A Joke At Night

Some false-bottom fear holds downtown day in a homeless comicstrip. Waiting for a payoff from parking meters? Flames to erupt from desks full of guilty gum-wrappers? Boring late-to-work lies - just one float flight slip skip could lose a living nobody's making and then where? Discontinued.

BusFace to LunchFace. Sidewalk strangers even at apathetic 4 o'clock only touch in recoil. StreetFace to HomeFace. Hear who really happened on the 7 o'clock news.

Abstract China and somebody else's riot.

Black Muslim minister in Cleveland predicted a solar eclipse in June as Allah's sign of impending war with China. Cleveland's mayor tried to cover - National Guard troops if there was no eclipse, a promise that troops would remain in Cleveland Armory if there was an eclipse and war.

Bombgod Nickeldime Mind!

Downtown faces, can you look in the mayor's eyes? There is no pushbutton for the sun and billyclubs pump more blood than you can swallow. Are you afraid to vomit salary and turn off atomic commercials? Bombgod is a deadpan ghost shaking down old ladies for life insurance.

We need not apply to job bodycounters. Up all night being meteors finally laid off. Locked out screwed and screwing, thank youi. Celestial spine work paid in grace.

RISK ROOF - to be in the night together whose bed.

RISK FOOD - harvesting machines leave half a crop to rot, fishing boats junk half a catch - feasts waiting for celebrants.

Start With One Spine And Stars. Bombgod Gets The Living Dead.

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