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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....

viral blood moon

Posted on July 30, 2022 by istsfor manity

caught-taut & lenticular lodged in the hippocampusmired in the slipstreamof an articulated faith dashed caught-taut & lenticularin the shadow of nightmarea gesture—superheated handson the throat a child listless in mid-aira vise foreshadowingthe pine boxlowered underground beneath a viral-blood moonnight claws … Continue reading →

pane cracked views

Posted on July 29, 2022 by istsfor manity

ghost town tanka of desperation,dim rooms moan obscenities.drafts seep through pane-crackedviews of black miry canals.alert sirens. empty streets. What I’m Reading: “We must learn to become conservationists of memory. Otherwise, this damage we have done to our planet will cost … Continue reading →

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we sailor skid

Posted on July 28, 2022 by istsfor manity

Deathbed Compact We vowed a deathbedcompact. We sagaprototypes, classicists,& evergreens. We ordinancein & out of time. We be farcicalmasons. We ebb & floelike Greenland ice sheetsunder successive heatdomes. We sailor-skidspanner ewers. We pesosunsets. We illumine pennybardos. What I’m Reading: “ … Continue reading →

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during this tinkle

Posted on July 27, 2022 by istsfor manity

Dada Letter #3 From the Management NOTICE To: All Toxin & Townhouse Resistors From: Mandolin Ogle Daydream: July 26, 2022 Re: Bull Watermelon Sick Dowry Monday, August 1, 2022, between 10 am and 2 pm, Coquette Mechanical will be installing … Continue reading →

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jam thin backlots

Posted on July 26, 2022 by istsfor manity

divagations the gaudy fellow’s lowmetafictional showlarge-scale zooming archaeology day projectspulled digressionsbrothel fashions staging craningcamera climaxesconceit police survey altercationstraffic performancesjam thin backlots spectacles undergroundthe starving feastspoll-polar-poles groundedvalentlove What I’m Reading: “We used to be a story in nature. Now we are … Continue reading →

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looking for a way

Posted on July 25, 2022 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “…nothing drives up the price of oil quite like war…” — Naomi Klein / No Is Not Enough “Climate grief and coronavirus grief feel strikingly parallel. The solutions to both problems rely on … Continue reading →

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wetlands and haircuts

Posted on July 24, 2022 by istsfor manity

Platitudes from the Prez (n+15) Decanter X, I am more confident than ever in America’s ability to protect our episode while creating minerals of good-paying joules, growing our eel, lowering enquirer councils, and raising the starting of locality for American … Continue reading →

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i don’t follow

Posted on July 23, 2022 by istsfor manity

Carmen’s Worm Meets Lancelot Link “The furin cleavage site. How’d it get there? That’s the key,” he said. “Carmen’s worm ruined the Christmas party,” she said. “Batten down the Babesiosis, boys, it’s going to be a bumpy ride,” said the … Continue reading →

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heat domes melt

Posted on July 22, 2022 by istsfor manity

tropospheric winds haiku upper level windswave 7 pattern prevailheat domes melt the north What I’m Reading: “Earth is ‘fine-tuned’ for humans in the same sense that it was once fine-tuned for dinosaurs.” — Zach Weinersmith / Science: Abridged Beyond the … Continue reading →

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parliament of swine

Posted on July 21, 2022 by istsfor manity

Chinny Chin Chin She opened the pigpens—A physics of badlandsResembled the scrubby hillsOf Theodore Roosevelt National Park.A parliament of swine chuff—Popped and faded paroxysms,sonnets of oilfield imbalances,Oilskin flints, & parley figs.She sang to the pigs:An imperfect parricide breedsThis parody of … Continue reading →

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