Author Archives: istsfor manity

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....

it’s hot oh

Posted on September 6, 2021 by istsfor manity

a complex of failure little saints ate beansand jesus this bodyis the whale you’re inside meyou don’t want to be it’s an ovencompletely shut intrappedhaunting meit’s hotoh my god it’s hoti’m a hard heartwheezing i’m a complex of failurehelp “The … Continue reading →

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kiss the granite

Posted on September 5, 2021 by istsfor manity

Helen Hoyt / istsfor manity (1918/2021) The Office Building Helen Hoyt We kissed there in the stone entrance,In the great cool stone mouth of the building,Before it took you.We kissed under the granite arches.And then you turned and were goneAnd … Continue reading →

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fungus among us

Posted on September 4, 2021 by istsfor manity

Polysemy of Text Polyvalency of Text Ambivalence of Text Mere Fungus Among Us “They drilled holes in his head, vacuumed out the blood and more words. My father was finally arrested, he turned in the rest of his words, they … Continue reading →

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puff of smoke

Posted on September 3, 2021 by istsfor manity

Down in the Canyon Oh nine oh two what a time to be blue. What a place for heartache and heat. You wrap your fingers around godness and restrict, redistrict, reapportion us on the path to hellion days. Nothing good … Continue reading →

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a nose for

Posted on September 2, 2021 by istsfor manity

Lost His Marbles Ekphrastic (Haiku) Portrait head distress—Socrates in syphilis—A nose for the void. “Ivan Ilyich’s life had been most simple and commonplace—and most horrifying.” —Leo Tolstoy / The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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note this now

Posted on September 1, 2021 by istsfor manity

What are Fish Gills to Fishers of Men? At a remove, in a gesture, a part of a thingRepresenting the whole. What are ambivalences of texts?Polyvalencies in readings? What flows from this desireTo macerate the pulp of lifeInto a sodden … Continue reading →

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on the lethe

Posted on August 31, 2021 by istsfor manity

Languor (redux) His word, his breath,Are merely synecdoche —Ephemeral. Nothing is true in the trueSense of the word. He drifts on the Lethe,Intoxicated by water that transforms —A trip into languor —And never sets foot on the other shore. “It … Continue reading →

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thesis paper joyless

Posted on August 30, 2021 by istsfor manity

flarfish 17(a): simulacrum marcela (Spanish to Persian to English translation version via Google Translate with Google sculpting) Inducing a pileated simulacrum—This very large & important evidence of the potential impact of gravitational loads &Levitational toadstools: PileusBrimless &Thesis paper joyless. Circean … Continue reading →

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wear fake wings

Posted on August 29, 2021 by istsfor manity

Perdido en la Traducción (Spanish) Las angustias y los torpecillos, como torpedos de gloria ensangrentada. Yo me devolucione de una manera trastornada con una demostración explotada y acrimonia. Adelante el alarde y sea alabada Antonieta Asuncion. La mas recaída e … Continue reading →

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the moon unmoored

Posted on August 28, 2021 by istsfor manity

Perdo’s Pox Night falls— A black feather,A white hair,A brittle bone,A rasp for air— The moon unmoored. “I am Death, the destroyer of worlds”— Bhagavad Gita

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