I began to fancy myself as a strangeness machine, rather than a poet per se.

Mathias Svalina: Violence is an ever-present human condition that induces change. It's deeply seeded in religious & political mythos; the fear of its revolutionary potential is one of the guiding forces of civilization. Something erupting out of nothing is a kind of primal understanding of violence. The violence of birth, of the skin opening up & revealing all the insides. All that stuff is the material of myth. In the pedagogy of life lessons, no one learns without violence. Yet violence is inherently absurd. The disconnect between all forms of civilizing, ameliorating human socialization & the violence needed to keep them in place is absurd. I'm not choleric by nature, so violence on a personal level fascinates me. If I remember correctly, no one benefits from violence in DM. Violence is part of how people interact & make sense of one another.