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LUMINOUS DEBRIS

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Luminous Debris is the title of Gustaf Sobin's collection of essays (UCal Press, 1999) on the landscape and history of Southern France, where the American expatriate has lived for more than forty years, but it might just as well describe his poems: like shards of some distant and immemorial linguistic eruption, they are full of middles and sometimes of ends, but their beginnings are lost in silence..�KultureFlash.net

LINGUA FRANCA
by Gustaf Sobin

frivolous with immensity, let your
fingertips slip over the
very contours
of
inception, grazing as they did its pleats, ripples, the

slick
contracted expanse of its muscles, laminated in

dark oils. loom and
dissolve; heave and succumb. for there, furtive, epi-

phenomenal, you'd only transit -- vaporous -- through all
those flexed
de-
terminants. does the mirror know what the
mirrored doesn't? wouldn't the

resonance enter, root
resplendent, there where the voice,
manifestly,
couldn't? thus drawn, solicited, even the air's
for

inclusion. so, too -- you'd noted -- each
dis-
tended member, its least
emitted murmur, but

only wrapped, enclosed in the whirring viscera of its own
un-

wording. for only then, in its very
ex-

tinguishing,
spoke.

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Rainy Wednesday and all I want to do is roll over and go back to sleep. We have a prowler in my neighborhood, so I was creeped out going to sleep and slept fitfully. Ugh. Had chorus rehearsal last night and dinner with my good pal and chorus director Musicgrrl beforehand. She's in a new relationship and is very happy, so we both wound up talking about the restorative power of good sex.

And I don't understand why people don't recognize mythology when it's staring them in the face.

And frankly, there's more than enough religious dogma in our country already and HRC must know that this inevitably increases the chances of homophobia and homophobic legislation. But I guess the recognize that it is politically wise to include Christians, and so the gospel and unity event occurs.

I ain't afraid of your yahweh.
I ain't afraid of your Jesus.
I ain't afraid of your Koran.
I'm afraid of what you do in the name of your god....

NOTE WELL: Use the following instruction only when the alleged crime was committed between April 18, 1983, and July 10, 1983, or on or after October 1, 1983. See Dictionary of Rape and Sexual Offense Instructions preceding N.C.P.I.�Crim 207.10 for crimes committed during other periods.

The defendant has been charged with attempted first degree sexual offense.

For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the state must prove four things beyond a reasonable doubt:

First, that the defendant intended to engage in a sexual act with the victim. A sexual act means
A. [cunnilingus, which is any touching, however slight, by the lips or the tongue of one person to any part of the female sex organ of another.]
B. [fellatio, which is any touching by the lips or tongue of one person and the the male sex organ of another.]
C. [analingus, which is any touching by the lips or tongue of one person and the anus of another.]
D. [anal intercourse, which is any penetration, however slight, of the anus of any person by the male sexual organ of another.]
E. [any penetration, however slight, by an object into the [genital] [anal] opening of a person's body.]1

Second, that at the time of the acts alleged, the victim was a child under the age of thirteen years.

Third, that, at the tgime of the alleged offense, the defendant was at least twelve years old and was at least four years older than the victim.

And fourth, that the defendant performed an act that was calculated and designed to accomplish [cunnilingus] [fellatio] [analingus] [anal intercourse] [penetration by an object into the [genital] [anal] opening of a person's body], which conduct came so close to bringing about that sexual act that in the ordinary course of events the defendant would have completed the act with the victim had he not been stopped or prevented.

(Mere preparation or mere planning is not enough to constitute such an act. But, the act need not necessarily be the last act required to complete the offense.)

If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the alleged date, the defendant intended to engage in a sexual act with the victim and that at that time the victim was a child under thirteen years old and was at least four or more years older than the victim and that defendant performed [an act] [acts] which in the ordinary course of events would have resulted in a sexual act by defendant with the victim had not the defendant been stopped or prevented from completing his apparent course of action, it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty. If you do not so find or if you have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, it would be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty.

1. G.S. 14-27.1(d) provides that it shall be an affirmative defense to the final type of sexual act that the penetration was for accepted medical purpose if there is evidence of such a purpose, instruct accordingly at the end of this charge.

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8:57 a.m. - 2005-10-05

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