Author Archives: istsfor manity

Pockmarked (redux) … later I get flashes of grandpa with his old runners all rolled up into one giant sticky mess—balled and held together with tape… He’d talk about the high school girls he’d “teach” Bible Study to. They: all … Continue reading →

0 a fata morgana on the desert horizonto catch a falling knifea future murkan opacityso densevoid0 What I’m Reading: Amandeep Gill, the United Nations special envoy for digital and emerging technologies, warns against a “slow death” in which “we slip, … Continue reading →

Perfidious I’m curious. How did you get here? According to my records you have a Pontiac station wagon with exterior wood panels on the doors, and yet you say God is in your kitchen filching the gas and feeding the … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The combined effect of rising inequality and economic stress, and the ubiquity of rich or seemingly rich people on the internet and society writ large, can result in people feeling poorer than they actually … Continue reading →

The Dialectic of Finger Traps It is she who lost her hydrogen and must fetishize herself in denial. She has an uneasy remand with her lunchbox: objection, objection! The most remarkable assertion is the dialectic of finger traps, wholly without precedent. … Continue reading →

Flicker A luminous train exposed to the emptiness flickers. Images repeated in a flicker film. A flickering image worth repeating. And repeating. A superstructure altogether fleeting and returning in fractions of a second. Indefatigable. Insistent. A plodding workhorse.  See here, … Continue reading →

every violent binge dear citizen— uncover your dusty radiosyou are two billfolds shy and your locutions are brokenin the froth of the bulldozer black and yellow cysts, and marshmallow wheat sideswipes remainthere’s too much red in the blue skyyour wheels … Continue reading →

Get Your Head Correct  I’ve got the blues: rhythm & write, political fuckery & objectionable calcification of the non-ossifiable and the non-frangible—that, in turns is un-mistakable in the homeostatic running of a life. No. No strife, nothing classifiable as such … Continue reading →