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when i say ungrounded i think what i imply is that a single experience can upset a worldview. so, the "ungrounded" are "caught off guard" by Pearl Harbors and 9/11s on a daily basis - boyfriends cheat, glasses drop, a wasp gets caught in the car. and, in upseting a worldview, a self is also upset - upset geologically, as in tilted, warped, and buckled. even erased. obviously this is what melissa benham once characterized as my "carefully carless" writing, where i don't know where it goes, yet it goes.

which is not to say "mistake" or "ignorant" but explorative. there is a type of upset around, say, the entrance of a wasp into a car, and then there is the magnification and exaggeration, the rupture of a previously acknowledged and held to norm by this entrance to such a degree that, a moment later, the person won't remember participating in the waving of the arms, the swearing and the fear - that it came over them. possession. so, perhaps i am talking about the sense that

i am not talking. i am

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