Minute Men

“To see the borders and coastal boundaries of the United States secured against the unlawful and unauthorized entry
 of all individuals, contraband, and foreign military. We will employ all means of civil protest, demonstration, and political lobbying to accomplish this goal.”

-- Mission Statement of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (17,550,501 members to date)

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Time passes and funny things happen to people and places. Texts appear, disappear, reappear. Like comes from like, and dust gathers unto dust, and wheels spin other wheels, and axes grind each other, and sparks fly everywhere, and plugs plug up people, and bigger books have bigger border wars for shelf space, and the states keep smiling at the children with eyes bigger than their mouths, and ink stains, and doors fall from jambs, and students purse their lips at professors’ smug shots, and the world is wrapped in cellophane like a great big manufactured good and evil—a ball of the Belleville bull weevil named Bill who kills the bulls.

That is to say…

Eve looked at the scorching sun’s tamale face in the cool blueberry water and said, “Wow. We will surely die.”