Author Archives: istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week All night your moth-breathFlickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:A far sea moves in my ear. — Sylvia Plath / “Morning Song” I think women run things better. Women are much … Continue reading →

dazzled bear armistice an avant-garde plateful / a dazzled bear armistice / computers full of soybean gas screaming soylent green is people / a rubber stamped law / vortex concubines exploring the playtime quartos of lime habits as sculptural embargo stay … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: A study of newer, bigger versions of three major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots shows that they are more inclined to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance when compared with previous models. The study also found that … Continue reading →

thee eggman of root vegetables . . .   . . . he believes in novelettes, not himself / he / thee feta trickster / now a forager of mirrors / unseen in the annals of modern beet milkers / … Continue reading →

What I’m Reading: In a way, Milton is exactly the type of storm that scientists have been warning could happen; Michael Wehner, a climate scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in California, called it shocking but not surprising. “One of … Continue reading →

counterculture mudgards jonesy spins an intermediate dub in the mixmind-bending parasites gyrate in psychedelic ardorthe postmistress breaks into the varsity ragall those sprawled out in mouth-breathing stuporeulogize the pogo in a sundae of sundaysit’s 1965 all over againbut with a … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Time moves on with its usual nihilism, mows us all down, jaw-droppingly insensate to our preference for living. Guns us down. In another split second millennia will pass and the beings on earth have … Continue reading →

red is our color she respects the tracksuit since julyshe yodels kindness+irritation at once we’re two awesome marxist archerscommies at the bullseye dialectics i am the third from the ringmaster in the photoshe’s center-right by the red gunner red is … Continue reading →

withdrawal at creation haggle haired+heinous in hennaproclaims the belligerent of bemoan he shackles the liminal stallon the prowl for a crochet gewgaw and a quavering bardoon an anvil toe charterheaded for the underworld he’s a mangle hack for tag and … Continue reading →