Monthly Archives: April 2024

be the change

Posted on April 30, 2024 by istsfor manity

Unbroken Tanka The antic days drift,Unbroken, day after dayInto the ether. Decolonize your brain stem —Be the change you want to live. What I’m Reading: For years the thought of you scorched my eyeballsNow all is well under the scalding … Continue reading →

in my neighborhood pt. 60

Posted on April 29, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: A city will know that it’s succeeded in becoming a cycling city when people don’t think of themselves as cyclists – riding a bicycle is just the way to get around. — Melissa Bruntlett & Chris Bruntlett … Continue reading →

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is creeping faster

Posted on April 28, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week It was hypnagogic sitting with him on the vinyl sofa tucked under the vibrating signs THRILLS, LOVE, and THE BRIGHT & THE SHINY as bluegrass twanged. We talked deeply over Bengali food . . … Continue reading →

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are the tornados

Posted on April 27, 2024 by istsfor manity

Quicksand Together we will read and disinfect literature and curate augments about the purity of intention. We will wreck work that is not up to our values purity. We will be attentive to the hobgoblins of human imperfection we must … Continue reading →

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things: unconscionable things

Posted on April 26, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Endless Not (redux) Dear C.— Sometimes I have the ocean roaring in my ears, in my head—not the intermittent breaks and ebbs of waves on the shore, but only the crashes—crashes, crashes, crashes—on an endless loop for minutes, hours … Continue reading →

with our wretchedness

Posted on April 25, 2024 by istsfor manity

We Become the Planet We Kill I get to bake the cellophane cake. You are an insouciant acolyte of peregrinations plus, and you ameliorate my angst. You’ll find me a way to progress as a pilgrim that isn’t full of … Continue reading →

crochet synchronized heartbeats

Posted on April 24, 2024 by istsfor manity

Naked Preamble Juana weaves her homily—one uprise after another, unaware that she’s at the precipice of her irritating anecdotes. Jean believes he deserves his honorific—the one Juana refuses to use when addressing him. Gaffes occur in a world ruled by … Continue reading →

in little sundresses

Posted on April 23, 2024 by istsfor manity

Meet The Beetles! (Redux) Briefly, gentlemen, it has come to my attention that there has been an inordinate amount of “buggery” going on between you and our beetles. This will not do. As of tomorrow at 7:00 am all those … Continue reading →

turned south again

Posted on April 22, 2024 by istsfor manity

Last Dose Nothing enervates like changing midstream, he said to the garage walls, but we adapt. William Katz, in the slipstream of placenta trip time, started anew. Katz was 103 miles into his new life—the New England life he envisioned—when … Continue reading →

action and reaction

Posted on April 21, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week . . . we’ve gone over from the relative freedoms of capitalism to technofeudalism, in which those who control the platforms have direct control over the rest of us, reducing us to the station … Continue reading →