FRAGMENT OF A NOTE FROM ANNE FRANK, 1999

Here I feel obliged to explain the retreat into a regression that retraces the journey into waste or some serious formal uncertainty.

Empty-handed except for the deep indentation of a scar so collapsed in its external aspect...

[middle section is missing; torn away]

...current and popular mysteries and events which continue to oscillate the thin wires running overhead and parallel to the old

railroad tracks which still dissect the world at large.