Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dartmouth CM | Judge: Jack Ewing
Someplace
A field of flowers
Rousing under remnants of the dawn:
Out there! from death, I rose
Above the silent many –
A distant will-o'-the-wisp
Reflecting under airs of minor ninths –
How rich the ambience they threw! 

What theme of prosody
Had rendered me? –
Tho’ silent were its words:
A broken soul in pulsing pain –
Thou mustn’t guess what goes behind
The sick and ghostly screen of war! 

In sallow-grey and other ashen hues,
Disrobed of warming flesh
That reassures the bones,
A twisted pose
Portrayed my physicality –
Not unlike the carcass of a prey; 

But as a cloud of thought, I mused,
Exacerbating woes
Collected in a life dispatched
In freely flowing blood,
Conferring crimson shades
Upon the arid lakes aflood
With glorious tides of nascent buds
Begetting innocence.
And as we glowed in ruddy shades,
I asked: ‘What future lies ahead?
What terror trades?
Slaughter 11 (Mark Slaughter, 2011, Upon the Arid Lakes http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/upon-the-arid-lakes/, CP)

Poetry is a form of mystical experience that lays waste to the resources of articulation. Our performance is the eye of the storm, the slippage into intoxication, a black sun, a lack, a laceration, a holy communication that opens up affirms a politics of the sacred
Land, 92 (Nick, Thirst for Annihilation, Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, pg 202-204, CP)
As if the confusional cyclone of poetry had already laid waste the resources of articulation
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man to blank’ II 247. Excess is venom. 

We are a shameless, indecent saintliness that brings about the happy loss of self, embracing and forming an unholy communication with nonexistence. Instead of focusing on the legal institutions and executive decisions that influence things like killing, detention, cyber operations, and ultimately macropolitical warfare, we choose to write violence, affirming a state of internal warfare that tears down the very fabric of identity
Irwin 02 (Alexander Irwin, Saints of the Impossible, Exercises in Inutility, pg 130 – 133, 2002, CP)
I see nothing but a succession of cruel splendors whose very movement demands that I
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-51). War is too important to be entrusted to the warriors. 

It is particularly relevant on the War Powers Resolution to interrogate the way in which traditional warfare operates. We must reject calls to political and ideological projects which inevitably rely on a principle of urgency and action. It is this construction of the project which allows for the worst forms of violence and forecloses the possibility of inner experience.
Irwin 02 (Alexander Irwin, Saints of the Impossible, Exercises in Inutility, pg 139 – 140, 2002, CP)
Bataille's first criticism of Jiinger's description of warfare concerns an epistemological "privilege" that
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de I'horreur lui convient mal" (BOC VII, 253-54). 

We insert the toxin of the impossible into political and philosophical discourse. Our relationship to war and violence should not be one of rationally coordinated political predictions and thesis, but rather a mystical inner experience that allows us to challenge hierarchical forms of domination that manifest themselves in totalitarian oppression. This is a precondition to political communication.
Irwin 02 (Alexander Irwin, Saints of the Impossible, Exercises in Inutility, Pg 162 – 164, 2002, CP)

This parti pris of responding to a brutal political and military situation with a mystico
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totalizing discourse," both in the philosophical and in the political realms.56 

You should endorse our politics of the sacred as a site for value creation, divorcing yourself from fascist and policy obsessed behavior that attempts to desperately seal the blister from within.
Land 92 ( Nick Land, Thirst for Annihilation, Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism, pg 140-141)

Fascism is not so much a symptom of political desperation, as of libidino-
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nothing for as long as it has not attained the beyond of words?
 

Don’t attempt to pry meaning out of our Affirmative. To attempt to know anything beyond yourself requires the negation of the place in which you currently resides. All knowledge is self effacing, however our Affirmative allows for an endless oscillation and enjoyment of that process
Bataille 45 (Georges, On Nietzsche, 1945, CP)

"'Life." I said. "is bound to be lost in death,
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grown from unfathomable experience. comically perched on the stake used for impalement.