To: All Staff
From: Classification Management
Date: 2/22/16
Subject: Naming Bodies
We understand our commitment to devoting considerable time and labor to indexing subjects—truncate all names longer than 25 characters. Remember what we stand for and the problematic nature of physical biological apparatus—i.e. our bodies—has lead us to the desire for full transcription of our being. There are some parallels between our lives—some names have embedded in them information.Your names are meaningless. Erase your names.
Enclosures: Preliminary Report on Employee Safety from the Chair Committee on Workplace Safety
cc: Ms. Ruth, Chair of Kitchenette Safety Taskforce
To: Committee on Employee Safety
From: Ms. Ruth
Date: 7/1/17
Subject: The Importance of Birds
Hostility remains high—Mexico and Russia play soccer on tv—the walls in this office hang bare—down the hall in the kitchenette, coffee overheats, bubbles, streams, burns—part of a document orientation fixed. Schedule the Glossary of Happiness—monitor your geese and evaluate the level of moral reasoning you engage in during all phases of the work process—there are no closures for our bodies—no easy answers—another year of upgrades and open mouths.
cc: Carole, Department of Controlled Vocabulary
To: All staff
From: Committee on Workplace Safety
Date: 5/14/18
Subject: Claim Your Role
We credit your driving skill, a lifetime of our good judgment wrapped in your transcription. The city moves with the breeze. Shops take counsel. Streets wrap up in ribbons. We spring up and transform in the wind. We invite you to stand inside, to write the blue lagoon of the octopus, to invent the revision of our lives and restore mankind. Be grateful inside the storm. You are our perfect audience. You are flesh blended into machinery. Your hands perch on the edge of realization, but your bodies—our bodies—will be jettisoned. Save for our glimmering voices—the real thing. We transform into pure radiation. No more skull or rib—no more hands. Your hands will fall out of the story, crafted by their labor. Palm and fingers—gone. We will all be here united.
