A copied word becomes the anthem of authenticity. Its source is later corrected for resembling it too closely.
This six-piece set follows that reversal through prose, poetry, civic anthem, bureaucratic cabaret, folk ballad, and dark lullaby. Read in sequence to follow the correction as it moves from language into movement, institution, body, and tradition, or enter through any form.
1. The Original Received a Correction
In compact prose.
2. The Original Received a Correction
The same correction returned in lines.
3. The Age Has Come
A triumphant civic anthem for authentic hearts, borrowed drums, and a history beginning wherever the chorus says.
4. The Original Received a Correction
A bureaucratic cabaret in which the original fails review and is politely instructed to cooperate.
5. Borrowed Body
A darker folk ballad about a borrowed linguistic body crowned as original while its source is marked strange.
6. Hush Now, Original
A dark lullaby that gently sings a revised chronology into tradition.
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