THE GYPSIES The election rally took place on the private property of a Christian university and the law

and the property owners excluded the vendors of t-shirts and pins from the grounds of the rally. These vendors had been following the republican party candidates on what they referred to as "the tour". The vendors and the guards engaged in cat and mouse games until at a certain point the guards surrendered and allowed all of the vendors inside the grounds.

THE MAN'S PROPERTY The Man and The Animal are in the space. The Animal ruminates in the field. The Animal paces in the cage. THE CHORUS Many will agree that the celebrated wildness of the animal is glorious and is a brilliant reminder of the nature that is always barely deferred. THE MAN I am The Man and I accumulate The Animal. The Animal is dangerous and beautiful and The Animal is all mine. THE ANIMAL I am the Animal and I'm hungry and I want to shit and I am thirsty and anyway I have no voice. Where are the chicken wings? THE MAN I will speak for the Animal and I love the Animal. If there are no chicken wings or expired burger patties perhaps we will have roadkill. Animal put on your animal face. The Animal puts on the animal face. THE CHORUS That's better. THE ANIMAL I have no voice. What comes out is either a pathetic moo or a horrible roar.

THE MAN I am happy to accumulate you Animal. My wife loves you. You will be our progeny and our privacy. The accumulation of the Animal is glorious and is what the custom serves to protect. THE ANIMAL Moo. Roar. THE MAN Ok I will go and find some roadkill for you to eat. Shit in the cage, you don't care your an Animal. THE ANIMAL Moo. Roar. Whimper. Scratch. The Man gets in his truck and drives to the road. The Neighbour is watching from the window. THE MAN Greetings Neighbour. THE NEIGHBOUR I am The Neighbour. Greetings Man. I hear you have accumulated The Animal. That is wonderful and I admire you for your spirit. You are a true daredevil. The custom is correct is it not? THE MAN Yes I am and Yes it is. I am now going to find some roadkill to feed the Animal because the expired chicken wings and burger patties are too expensive at the moment. You know how much Animal costs at the Amish Auction! THE NEIGHBOUR God bless the county where we are free to accumulate. THE MAN God bless the county. THE CHORUS, THE MAN, THE NEIGHBOUR. God bless the county.

A ROAD IN THE COUNTY. On one side The Neighbour's property on the other The Man's The Neighbour and The Animal stand within the Neighbour's property. The Animal is eating the grass. THE CHORUS

Many will agree that the accumulation of The Animal is a customary expression of freedom in the county. Many will agree that the custom obliges the law and the law protects the custom. Yet all beware the ning ning ning's and big bertha. THE NEIGHBOUR I am The Neighbour. Animal you are shitting on my lawn and eating my grass. THE ANIMAL I am The Animal. I shit where I can and eat what I can. I might eat you I don't really know. THE NEIGHBOUR Yes you might. I am not frightened but I have notified The Law because your presence is disturbing me. The Law arrives. THE LAW I am the Law of the county. You are the Neighbour. What seems to be the problem? THE NEIGHBOUR I am The Neighbour. I have always been The Neighbour. The Man has set an excellent example to the whole county by accumulating The Animal and by his genuine pioneering spirit. However The Animal is starving and its deprivation has caused The Animal to wander and find pasture on my property. The fact that the man's fences are weak enough to allow the Animal liberty to graze upon my grass in fact weakens the Man's rights to The Animal. Faced with this dilemma I have decided to call upon the Law. Animal may I speak in your name? THE ANIMAL Anyone that wants to can speak in my name. THE CHORUS That is correct. THE LAW I am the law. Some call me Big Bertha, it is good that you have

called me because I am not permitted to go any place where I am not invited and actually I have wanted to come here for quite some time. The Man has accumulated allot of The Animal. THE NEIGHBOUR Yes. And we both know that The Man has accumulated allot of the Exotic Animal. THE CHORUS Ning Ning Ning. THE LAW That is true Neighbour, however the Man is in his rights to accumulate the exotic animal and we can't really talk about that because the fiction of liberty is unspeakable. THE NEIGHBOUR Yes. I want to be very clear that I have nothing against the Man yes I hate the man because I feel threatened by the weakness of his hold over the animal and the strength of his commitment to the custom. Actually I fear that The Man may in fact believe that the custom really exists and therefore I may end up disbelieving the custom as a consequence. His over commitment to the custom threatens to expose the contradictions that I contain by not speaking them. THE CHORUS That's right. The contradictions are unspeakable and usually enough to cloud the issue. Just then the Man arrives. Ignoring the law and the Neighbour the Man speaks directly to the animal. THE MAN I am the Man and you are the Animal. Come here now and let us go back to my property. The compounding of my accumulation and my poverty is unraveling my sense of custom. The Animal reluctantly follows the man, eyeing the green grass of the Neighbours lawn. The law and the Neighbour watch the man go. The law writes in the law's book.

THE LAW It is true that the man alone speaks for his animal and is within the custom. But I am the law and my memory is eternal. THE CHORUS Big Bertha! The law's memory is eternal. And the law and the custom are not the same. This is a mistake that many make To confound the law for the custom and the custom for the law. What is permitted is not always allowed.

THE ROAD The Expert watches the Animal. The Animal is within the fence of the property while the Expert stands on the road. THE CHORUS Beware the expert! Insidiously modest, genuinely cruel in the expertezic comportment and scientificated ning ning ning. THE ANIMAL I am The Animal and I cannot speak. THE EXPERT I am The Expert and can speak for The Animal. All I have to do is look and then I can speak and make. Neutral, I translate what I see into words. The Law, I speak for The Animal directly to The Law and I do not know the custom. THE ANIMAL Don't worry I don't even know The Man and he doesn't feed me anyway, Have any grass? THE EXPERT Will you show me the abuses? THE ANIMAL They are for you to create. THE EXPERT Fine I will make them. THE CHORUS The Expert made the abuse of the Animal and notified the Law. The Law was pleased and in this way the custom was safely circumvented. The

custom was safely circumvented because the custom was kept intact thanks to The Expert whose ability to speak cannot be denied. The Law arrives. THE LAW I am the Law and I have been notified by The Expert that there has been an abuse of The Animal. Now I have the right to enter the Property and lay my eyes upon the exotic animal. THE CHORUS The Law has the right. The expert has done an expert job. Of creating the abuse and fabricating the Abused Animal. Now the Law can swarm. THE LAW Neighbour are you satisfied? The Neighbour has been watching all of this from the window and now opens the window to speak. THE NEIGHBOUR Ning Ning Ning. I am the Neighbour and I have nothing against the man but that I fear the spill and leak of the Man's accumulated Animal. THE LAW Have you seen the Man? THE NEIGHBOUR I have not. THE CHORUS The Man is gone from The Man. The Animal shies away from the Expert. The Animal ruminates. THE NEIGHBOUR Can you see that? The Animal is not comfortable. None of us are to be perfectly honest. This is bad but it could be worse. THE CHORUS It will be bad but it could be worse. Those who mistake this county for a county of custom mistake the custom for the zone of law. In the county the custom is projected upon a vapor.

OUTSIDE OF THE NEIGHBOURS WINDOW THE CHORUS Big Bertha. THE NEIGHBOUR I am The Neighbour. Behold The Law has arrived. Outside of the Neighbours window The Law masses along the fence line of The Man's property. THE CHORUS Everything that will follow now has already occurred. The Threat was readily apparent with the first ning of the ning ning nings and the throttle of Big Berthas engines. The Law has been notified by the expert who has made the abuse and now the doctrine of full spectrum domination must be applied to The Man who has accumulated too much of the exotic animal. THE LAW I am The Law. In my dreams I am threatened by the exotic animal and I have enforced the law. All these things have already happened. Ning ning ning. THE CHORUS Ning Ning Ning. THE NEIGHBOUR I am the Neighbour. The exotic animal has already rent the throats of my children and I will exact my vengeance. Ning ning ning. THE CHORUS Ning Ning Ning. THE MAN I am the Man and I believed in the custom and embrace the Ning Ning Nings. I admit that I am now neither citizen nor subject. What I had thought I had been, was always a projection upon a vapor. THE CHORUS It is.

INTERLUDE: PRISON

The man sits in the prison and looks sad. The animal paces in a cage. The law is sewing a quilt. The Neighbour eats. THE CHORUS And for a year and a day the county was at peace. The law was enforced and the man was punished. The Neighbours vengeance was satisfactory. For a year and a day.

OPEN HOUSE On a slight hillside overlooking the mans property below and divided by a slight shoddy fence. THE CHORUS And the man was dashed to the stones his head separated from his body and the head of the condemned attached to his body. And the yoke of the law was his burden. Yet the suffering of the condemned man is invisible to the neighbor as he is secluded on the property. And no one cares. And no one understands. All but the animal whose immortal spirit. Like the heart of a heartless world. THE NEIGHBOR I am the neighbor and I haven't seen the man since he returned from prison. Well that's a lie. I see him all the time from the distance of the fence line. I see the animal in the flimsy cages and the man walks about staying close to his house. The Neighbor refrains from shouting a greeting to the man. We zoom down to the house. The law enters the scene. THE LAW I am the law. If once I wasn't able to infiltrate penetrate and pierce the man's private property well now I can and nothing he has is private

any longer. Every thing he does is noted in my book and he wears this surveillance on his body. THE CHORUS Is it enough? THE LAW There is still the threat of the animal. Ning Ning Ning. THE MAN I would just like to take a recreational walk now. I need to recreate. Animal just looking at you was once recreational and now my time in prison has convinced me that captivity is immoral. THE ANIMAL I am the Animal and Just Living is enough for me. Shut the fuck up man and bring me more burgers and chicken wings. Dumb fuck who thinks I appreciate hugs. THE CHORUS And they say you can't speak. General (fake) laughter. Cut to the Neighbor who is still watching from the fence line way up on the hill. THE NEIGHBOR I am the neighbor. You know what? It sure looks lonely down there. The man and the animal locked in some kind of perverted dialogue. I just got me a horse and I'm gonna ride him. THE CHORUS And the neighbor and the law continued to calculate and catalogue the threat. The threat threatened all who approached the threat or who had heard about the threat no matter if they are near or far the threat spread under the county threatening to burst from the ground any time any place. The threat was always and forever threatening and remained so.

RELEASE

The Animal slinks through the forest. The Animal pauses and eats something from the ground. The Animal swings from a tree rolls in the long grass and sleeps. THE CHORUS After the event the law had counted the animal and had found the animal to be counted. But the animal cannot be counted. THE ANIMAL I am the animal and I cannot be counted. THE CHORUS Why not? The Animal cannot speak. THE CHORUS (CONT'D) And you cannot speak. And the animal does not die. The animal grazes and swings and slinks through the forest. Inside the animal is another animal and another and another. THE CHORUS (CONT'D) The Animal is full with animal.

FALSE INTERVIEWS - MONKEY WOMAN'S VOICE Well as far as i know they had accounted for all of the Animals except one of the monkey's. The monkey was assumed eaten by one of the lions or whatever. I heard from one of the cops that was there that the monkey wasn't used to the landscape and was just sort of hanging out in the middle of a grassy field and one of the big cats just kind of ate it up you know what i mean? Any way the cops had been concerned about the monkey cause it was thought to have been carrying some kind of toxic parasite. --MAN'S VOICE I know one of the guys from the zoo, animal handler guy who told me all about that. He was on the team that went over there and looked for the monkey. It was too fucking cold for a monkey. Monkey wouldn't have

been hiding in a tree he'd be dead. Look at all the images and stuff from then it was fucking cold man. Really. Monkeys live in the tropics and shit. The zoo guys didn't even want to go it was the feds that were all hot about it. Zoo guys didn't believe a word of it, thought it was all shit.

FALSE POLICE REPORT - MONKEY On October the 21st I was ordered by dispatch to assist in an operation conducted by the CDC and the Columbus zoo people at the kopchak road area and specifically the Thompson farm. With Lt. Sutherland our role was to provide security and liaison with the public. At 0500 hours we arrived at the location and saw that the CDC people had engaged a couple of large trucks to the area. Thermal imaging equipment was being deployed by 3 teams and at 0700 hours we proceeded to grid search the area. The CDC people were concerned with the possibility of one of the Monkeys having remained in the area and with the possible spread of parasitic worms to the cattle in the area. We grid searched a couple of times and at 1200 hours I was called off the detail to respond to a call nearby. When I got back at 1340 hours the search had been called off. I believe that the monkey was never found. In the course of the detail myself and Lt.. Sutherland provided security and liaised with several locals. At no time was there any problem of cooperation and I would have to state that i would put that down to the CDC people wearing protective garments that most likely scared off any local people from interfering with the operation. Detective Jim Hareson

THE COUNTY FLOWS AND THE WORM The counties meta flows were calculated by the law and the experts who concentrated the machinic eye upon flows newly made visible by the Geographic Information Systems of young Andy Roberts. Ground water concentrations, piped water systems and sewage infrastructure were contrasted and weighted to the risks of water pollution and flood based upon topographical conditions and dynamically mapped to the instability of geographical features generating risk assessments of newly discovered threats that had now suddenly always already been translated as spectacular events. The hygienic fluids of the county possessed The counties experts who with a flick of a computer

switch turned up maps laden with information made comparative by the reticular technologies. Fire hazards and Fire Department buffer zones were related to the loss of prime farmland soils to residential zoning in ways that suddenly became obvious. The mapping of flows actual and potential as layers within an information spectrum altered the Law's proprioception in the county. The making visible of business concentrations and land ownership for tax appraisal, Oil Gas and Mineral rights to Active and Inactive fossil fuels populated the imaginations of The Law and The Experts activating fantasies of optimizations and economic development frustratingly made slow by The Custom. Meanwhile the worm made itself comfortable in the gut. The flows moving down from the Amish hills to the counties highways, byways, and farm tracts dispersed and trickled from arteries to veins to capillaries and then with the flick of the machinic optic became highways once again in the intestinal tracts of The Animal Four of the tigers contracted tapeworm. Dr Bisslebaum usually wormed the cats but several of the bears contracted the worms and they soon arrived in the digestive tracts of the lions, male and female. The monkeys were considered impervious to worm and it was normally a strain of the herpes virus that concerned the man and The Expert. However within 6 months the worm had proliferated by way of the alimentary flows of expired chicken parts, beef patties, and roadkill. The infiltration was exacerbated by the conditions of the cages and the presence of fecal matter and urine in areas where feeding occurred. In time 50 kilometers of digestive tract would come to be infiltrated by the worm. The humours and moods of the Animal activated and shaded via neuronal networks of the gut became possessed by the wiles and movements of the worm, tickling away at the tracts lining, capturing nutritional flows and pirating bandwidth. The flows thus interrupted, the invisible intruder became the sole agent capable of moving between states of Animal, Man, Law, and Custom. The worm came to define and trace the contours of what constituted the discrete animal and its externalities within the county. The nutritive flows became regulated by the worm ultimately capable of modulating the alimentary medium of the relations between The Man and The Animal. And the Animal was seen to be restless. And the Animal was seen to be fatigued.