I.
in the 80’s, semioticians were employed to debate on & devise an unmistakable
system of signs meant to deter future civilizations from disturbing nuclear waste sites
the so-called “long-time” nuclear waste warning messages thy produced took on
quasi-mystical significations — the sites were so dangerous & the necessary deterrence
stretching so far into the future that the non-linguistic signage, when taken from the
hypothetical viewpoint of 10,000 years on, apes the most hauntingly deferential cultic
shrines ungirded by archaeology apocalypse in the form of depth-swarming triadic
beasts
“no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here” says the Sandia report
the semioticians & researchers proposed several strange & eerie solutions to the
problem they faced grotesque, “hostile” architecture
in the shape of senseless roads or
a labyrinth of house-sized monoliths*
a great field of giant spikes
rendering the landscape permanently untillable, &c.
more possessing: a chthonic priesthood to build a Death-cult’s mythology around
the sites; a long-time papacy to forbid & forebode; radiation wearing ghost masks; the
emanations of the very ground we walk the cause & unfurling of chaos or order
the latter proposal mirrors the Forbidden Forest trope of fairy tale
& each belies the efforts of fabrication & schizoid inference @ play in
culture-building
II.
find me
in the distance going
went find u on
the obverse
irradiated slab
we will hurt the earth
