Ubi est corpus. Ubi sunt. (Where is the body. Where are they)

The American flag, itself a Neo-Dadaist construct, so easily a stand-in for an uncertain value proposition. Now in an arena of perverse and pervasive simulacra its constitution is fortified with artificial flavor, gut instinct, appetite, authority, duality, possession. Bulked up and swollen.

Discourse is in a reduction state, diminished, breathless, crippled.