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their imagination circulates

with that which is given them:
as if an ever more constricting diet of imagination
lifelong to be repeated

which constitutes their community's organism,
no head, but a collective obedience

all subjectivity eliminated;
one public voice, a meaningless opinion
like a thunder, a unifying sound addressed to everyone:
everyone responding in a uniform voice

a sensibility alien to choice that never practiced liberty

an imagination infested with fear of the stranger
a community copulating in darkness ever darker
their very own flesh a plague of fantasies