Monthly Archives: January 2024

colitis goes by

Posted on January 11, 2024 by istsfor manity

Mister Mondegreen I’ve planted it here in my bones and made it a part of the ringing in my ears. There’s no Marquessa of Nice Dreams. All is tinnitus and susurration—nightmares in the depths of our daily miracles. Place your … Continue reading →

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eater of beans

Posted on January 10, 2024 by istsfor manity

Lament the Asterisk* The world is full of asterisks and mollusks, but the asterisks are quickly replacing the mollusks. Whelks and welts are abundant in the inner spheres of lucubration and indigestion. Are you studying my gestations? My ravenous clawed … Continue reading →

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critical focal [{(/acuity/)}] vacuity

Posted on January 9, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “There is snow, now—A thing of silent creeping—And day is strange half-night” — D’Arcy McNickle / “The Mountains”

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exactly eggs-actley

Posted on January 8, 2024 by istsfor manity

cut-up 01062024 Me, ya’ sure.fade into man and woman, see the words into headsWhere violet leaves ain’twhere next, you know, mouth without teeth nightmare? You hate a lot of it TALLdegenerate and faithless City is a dog, prison is a … Continue reading →

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a good hate

Posted on January 7, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “All your life you’ve been asleep, all of us sleeping and now the great waking begins.” — Paul Lynch / Prophet Song “This part of the ritual was always a release. Everyone relaxed … Continue reading →

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minute of elation

Posted on January 6, 2024 by istsfor manity

Seafood City, Very Pretty Fade In. The violet sky suffused with a borealis green at the horizon line, and where a dark lake should be I find instead a crumpled piece of black construction paper. But how did they get … Continue reading →

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humans are dumb

Posted on January 5, 2024 by istsfor manity

In Silver Lamé Petunia has a dream where she hides in her sister’s basement while her sister conducts a clandestine revolutionary meeting upstairs in the newly remodeled kitchen. Che Guevara and the Symbionese Liberation Army are in attendance. Hot chocolate … Continue reading →

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please sister please

Posted on January 4, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Madcap Rasps She spills a cup of lukewarm spasmodic hate on the splotchy record cover. A monocle of Earl floats on The Madcap Laughs, and catches a waver of dim sunlight. This is the stuff of irritation. This is … Continue reading →

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seven blisters smooth

Posted on January 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

Echo Elegy (Tanka) We bleed salt and ice—Mournful echoes of glaciers—Seven sunburns deep,We lance seven blisters smooth:Heat domes in the skin-light dawn. What I’m Reading: “And if the urgency of a subject were indeed a criterion of its seriousness, then, … Continue reading →

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is this on

Posted on January 2, 2024 by istsfor manity

Mainlining Extinction An overheated tragedy unspoolingin a slow motion, so obscene—so perverse—in its deathly insistence,and the players moving aboutas if in a deep pool of molasses.What gives? Why this suicidal main-lining extinction by heat, drought,famine, forced migration, acidification & flood? … Continue reading →

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