A handbook detailing techniques for use in the field, including a routine called “Spinoza and Mortimer Snerd,” in which a low-ranking spy would be grilled at length about great affairs of state of which he knows nothing to break his resistance to revealing the lesser details with which he is well acquainted, “KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation” was published by the CIA in July 1963.

“Now I am thinking of a specific desert
and the bloom of a lake upon my forearm.
A smoky cartoon, of you, ruinous arguer.

“even while sleeping you have to think” this
is how he made his fortune he used her to unravel
her thoughts in the middle of the night he awakened her then fell asleep
abruptly she kept one eye open until daybreak

It’s the door, and beyond it is the paradise of the heart. Our things—and everything is ours—are interchangeable. And the door is a door, the door of metonymy, the door of legend. A door to keep September gentle. A door that invites fields to begin their wheat.

Simulacra, scrud, compendium
Nathaniel Hatchet, crud, Ferguson-
Skull contented satellites smear
two ponies. Smear.

“You were at that round table in the sun,
why did you move?
I said why’d you move,
you were at that nice table, in the sun?