Monthly Archives: February 2024

place in nature

Posted on February 19, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Thing I Heard Yesterday Our mother grows angryRetribution will be swiftWe squander her soil and suck out her sweet black blood to burn itWe turned money into God and salivate over opportunities tocrumple and crinkle our souls for … Continue reading →

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in carjacked country

Posted on February 18, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week Words float up the stairs like so many childhood letter magnets. Endgame, civilization, catastrophe, humanitarian. — Megan Hunter / The End We Start From Those who witness extreme social collapse at first hand … Continue reading →

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stack of tsundoku

Posted on February 17, 2024 by istsfor manity

tsundoku haiku stack of tsundokutowers leaning out of timeso much potential What I’m Reading: Any chance they get, my dreams unfurl in their allotted small space. They are origami, they are Japanese pod hotels. They fit it all in. — … Continue reading →

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your goalkeeper stilettos

Posted on February 16, 2024 by istsfor manity

Stay Home Tarnish your creativity. Spout rejoinders on repeat and impress your casual acquaintances during cocktail circles. Piddle about in aimless banter. Don’t glow, but please wear your goalkeeper stilettos and your mattock face. Speak in errant arpeggios—say much: mean … Continue reading →

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fingernail has purchase

Posted on February 15, 2024 by istsfor manity

obscurantist and mud heart he presents alienation — charities, cleavages, chimeras and ramifications her winger where the finch was showered and dubbed in the larch that cannot be read today they receive a seminal matchbox in aubergine and reveries his … Continue reading →

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we have leaks

Posted on February 14, 2024 by istsfor manity

Hypnopompic Chronicle (redux) Traffic outside. Snow and garish colors swirl. Shattering glass above our heads. The cat runs from underneath the bed and stands sentry below the window. Crunching glass at the top of the window behind the blinds. A … Continue reading →

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flashes of white

Posted on February 13, 2024 by istsfor manity

Limitation Monologue (tanka•tanka•envoi) Do you drool and mouseIn unauthorized likeness?Do you firebrick, too?You wisecrack and oscillateIn diacritics and wine. You have silkworms here:Dialectics and dashes,Flashes of white limbs.What did you bury last fall?Why does this corpse sprout and bloom? I … Continue reading →

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in my neighborhood pt. 54

Posted on February 12, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: Moon and starsCannot resolveThe abyss. — Dambudzo Marechera / Black Sunlight

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take the chance

Posted on February 11, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week We humans must revere the earth, for it is ourwell-being. Always the earth grants us what weneed. If we treat the earth with kindness, it willtreat us kindly. If we give our belief … Continue reading →

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hissed and meeped

Posted on February 10, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Tuneless Ballad of Rostay Toonany and Chemo Destrapè Clowns and claustrophobes both. Masters of microbes and microbiomes—and bonhomie. Too much probiotic nonsense squelching their wheelhouse one day, and they took to fisticuffs. Oh, what a dastardly day for all! … Continue reading →

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