Coulds Of Nauseous
The door closes and now he has to describe what he just ate.
Reporters in the hallway with microphones ... Microphones do not taste anything ... They just record what the mouth says the mouth tasted ... Raskin standing in the fluorescent afterglow of five hours with a word for what happened in there ...
The word he found was cover-up.
Not cover-up the way we say it on television ... He said in the middle of ... We are in the middle of a cover-up ... Which means it is not over there ... It is here ... Around us ... We are standing inside it the way you stand inside fog ... You do not see fog from a distance and decide to walk into it ... You realize you are in it when you cannot see the thing that was in front of you a minute ago ...
Evaded ... She evaded answering most questions ... Evade is what a body does when something is coming toward it ... A boxer evades ... A person who does not want to be touched evades ... The questions came and the attorney general was not where the questions landed ... That is not failure ... That is a skill someone practiced ...
Demeanor ... Raskin said her demeanor showed something ... Demeanor is the plate the food is served on ... You can put anything on a plate ... The plate does not change ... The demeanor was steady while what was under it was not ... The cover-up covering itself ... The face performing calm while the calm is the thing being performed ...
A person who has been lied to in a relationship knows this ... The demeanor ... The face that does not change while the thing underneath it shifts every time you look away ... You cannot prove demeanor ... You cannot hold it up in a courtroom and say look at this ... But you can feel it ... The way you feel weather before you see it ... Raskin felt it ... He stood in it for five hours and then walked into the hallway and said the word ...
Transparency Act ... A law named after the quality of glass ... The quality of being able to see through ... Five hours under a law called transparency and what was produced was opacity ... The law named the thing the room refused to become ...
In the middle of ... Not witnessing a cover-up ... Not accusing someone of a cover-up ... In the middle of one ... The middle is where you cannot see the edges ... The middle is where the fog is thickest ... The middle is where the person in it starts to wonder if maybe this is just what the air looks like now ... If maybe the fog is permanent ...
That is how cover-ups work ... Not by hiding everything at once ... By making the hiding feel like the room ... By making opacity feel like the weather ... Until the person standing in it stops saying I cannot see and starts saying this is just how it looks ...
The microphones recorded what he said ... The hallway fluorescents buzzed the way fluorescents do ... Somewhere behind the closed door the dish was still on the table from the hearing nobody ate at ... Getting colder ... The cover on it now not a metaphor but the actual surface of a thing going untouched ...
DISCUSTING
February 12, 2026
Unfolding
Methodology: Wonderful Garbage
Style: Noir Song
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