Etymology of Disappearances

1. 1. Disappear : to cease to be visible
      1. Amy had long braids down past their waist
         1. Long enough to swing from
         2. Childhood playing in an apple tree
            1. Little apple cupped by little hands
            2. Manzanita, manitas
         3. Hair tying generations
         4. The future lies possibilities braiding fingerprints on
            1. braids
            2. tendon
            3. marrow
      2. Butch : i cut my hair short
         1. Like a revelation
         2. Amy did too
   2. Disappear : like light fading at the end of the movie
      1. dreams and realities gathering on celluloid
      2. nitrate fires      When we burn we become air
      3. How do you tell your mother you are not her mirror
         1. How you aspire to be less
         2. There is nothing i am reaching for
         3. Oh to be spotless
            1. Rosa holds a mirror to her chest, the reflection creates a void, her heart disappears as we see ourselves inside her. We look at Rosa, we see ourselves. We look at Rosa, we do not see her. My angel my angel my hole mirror hole.
   3. Enforced disappearances : part of a series on Kidnapping
      1. Plausible deniability
      2. resistance swallowed by Night and Fog
         1. There is precedent for everything
      3. the C.I.A. vs. the Army of the Poor
         1. The violence was never a metaphor
      4. illegal detention centers and a Dirty War
         1. There is precedent for everything
   4. Administrative disappearances : part of a series on Kidnapping
      1. Names disappearing from lists
      2. Names disappearing from detention centers
      3. Names disappearing in transit
      4. Names sinking in Seminole swamps
      5. Names disappearing
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         1. Names disappearing names di
         2. sappering names
         3. disappearing
         4. names
            1. What do they do with the bodies
               1. There is precedent for everything

^1. The Night and Fog Decree was issued by Adolf Hitler in 1941, formalizing the practice of speedy and secretive elimination of anyone seen as a political dissident.
^2. The Guerilla Army of the Poor was part of the popular resistance against the U.S. backed military dictatorship of Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War in the 1960s. During the Guatemalan Civil War, the government committed genocide against the Maya people and is thus remembered as La Violencia.
^3. The “Dirty War” began in Argentina in the 1970s as the national government attempted to eliminate political dissent using disappearances, death squads, detention centers, and death flights.