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Of Moral Spaces in Authorized Places

in shock, and the world watching
yellow police tape adorn
left-over bombs and explosives,
balloons, bows, and wreaths of flowers.
tale to tell and questions to ask
recreated in temporal sequence,
to hammer home to all
the space of its occurrence
as separate and separable is.
and the manner of its telling
of our spatial and moral locations,
places of the dangerous Other
and spatial imaginaries. moral spaces,
which emanate from beyond,
to the realm of unimportance
around a collective self-casting
with insidious shadows posing
libidinal images of other traces,
of moral places within the bounds,
of moral spaces in authorized places.

in shock, and the world watching
yellow police tape adorn
left-over bombs and explosives,
balloons, bows, and wreaths of flowers.
tale to tell and questions to ask
recreated in temporal sequence,
to hammer home to all
the space of its occurrence
as separate and separable is.
and the manner of its telling
of our spatial and moral locations,
places of the dangerous Other
and spatial imaginaries. moral spaces,
which emanate from beyond,
to the realm of unimportance
around a collective self-casting
with insidious shadows posing
libidinal images of other traces,
of moral places within the bounds,
of moral spaces in authorized places.

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By Jeffrey L. H. Naylor

Retired Professor of Literary Criticism/Philosophy/History. Retired USAR Lieutenant Colonel. Father of six.

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