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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....

the tuna satsuma

Posted on December 16, 2022 by istsfor manity

damn yam man he’s the damn yam man—dire—gets worse by the dazea comma swiper, a foothold grifter:schemes the pearl butterflies& dark alley luresweighs the buttercup thesisagainst his peppercorn life he screams of unexpiredroentgen megatons—names his fireflies by heart he’s the … Continue reading →

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3 years ago today

Posted on December 15, 2022 by istsfor manity

A Rare Delectation (redux) He woke up with the Spinners’ “I’ll Be Around” spinning in his head. He had this dream 1,822 times since seeing their performance on that Saturday morning in 1973. The gold and ruddy light of it. The smoking jacket … Continue reading →

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in a bedpan

Posted on December 14, 2022 by istsfor manity

More Community Emails @ N+8 Gasbag Radio (Price: free) Posted by: Linda Marmoset in Other Jacks I have a gasbag radio that I do not need. Unfortunately, it dogmas and doesn’t follow-through under beefburger strainer, but might be good in … Continue reading →

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apropos of nothing

Posted on December 13, 2022 by istsfor manity

Veering Towards Valerium Venerium Where’s the action? The waves? The munitions? The minions? I don’t particularly dislike others but you might say I have an unresolved self-loathing issue ricocheting about in my cranium—and it’s rather spacious in there because I … Continue reading →

your inebriate life

Posted on December 12, 2022 by istsfor manity

Room for You at the Bottom of the Bay The A plane by way of A. Johnson, brought down by ritual and lack of victuals. Deadeth on arrival: thorny ocotillos and twenty minute count downs. Tomorrow I’ll learn about writing … Continue reading →

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i yearned to

Posted on December 11, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first … Continue reading →

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please do not

Posted on December 10, 2022 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “… I became an artist—to find a mode of survival.” —Louise Bourgeois / A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts

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nothing to grasp

Posted on December 9, 2022 by istsfor manity

•im talking to you from the skronk domain• where channel interferencesoverlay on the overlayersmultiple frequencies banding into onestatic ///// white noise ///// skronkyou understand nothingimpermanence === transiencenothing to ••••••••••••nothing to graspbut skronktectonics• What I’m Reading: “… ‘In a society of … Continue reading →

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in my neighborhood pt. 20

Posted on December 8, 2022 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “At the heart of every creation is a need to connect, even if it is to connect to no one in silent defiance or a curious desperation. The inner world is even more immense than the measured … Continue reading →

gelid & jealous

Posted on December 7, 2022 by istsfor manity

the moon jejune? rough are the exteriorsits seams are where the dreams get inthe interiors full of barbsprotecting the sweet potato redsoft monsters jelly delightsbright as the blistering moon the moon jejune? pellucid gelid & jealousof the first ray the … Continue reading →

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