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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....

hottest year ever

Posted on December 3, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “I’m back insidemy headwhere it’s safe” — Ocean Vuong / “Dear Peter” / Time Is A Mother “It’s always like that. Childhood makes us what we are.” — Marcial Gala / The Black … Continue reading →

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in this (my) neighborhood pt.52

Posted on December 2, 2023 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “Hope. It’s powerful; it can change things. But you’ve got to put yourself in the way of it, let yourself feel it. Let the power of it lift you up. That’s what you’re doing: putting yourself in … Continue reading →

on the wall

Posted on December 1, 2023 by istsfor manity

(ham on the wall) ham on the wall love on the rocks blood on the tracks ain’t comin’ back (home) What I’m Reading: “She just didn’t like taking up space.Everyone occupies a certain amount of physical space according to their … Continue reading →

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doglegs and dollops

Posted on November 30, 2023 by istsfor manity

Gala Doglegs and dollops—perverse agitations that might be able to help. I am alone here caring for both. My motorway—untraveled by deadbeat descendants. Emergency in stairway 4! Toffee stuck on my canines and it’s too much for me to manage. … Continue reading →

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am (probably) naughty

Posted on November 29, 2023 by istsfor manity

Huh? I renounce. Friend or enemy? A place “where there is no darkness?” Huh? Since thee Chump’s ketches run low, mizzen-masted abominations, out of the thick, cloudy dregs at a barrel’s wake chucked overboard, you should stand at attention. Stay … Continue reading →

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vilest of audiences

Posted on November 28, 2023 by istsfor manity

A Caesura The congregation says: You seem to have no place to insert this enema. A simple conjuring would do, but I abjure. Dividing wallpaper between two cherubim can be such a bore. So I relent: Make two wounds, two … Continue reading →

backlit by sun

Posted on November 27, 2023 by istsfor manity

Scabs (tanka) Why so many scabs?She asks, unsure of my face.I have been in love,I say, dark, backlit by sun.She morphs into a cloudlet. What I’m Reading: “In the evenings, we read novels in separate roomsor in the same room … Continue reading →

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most-heated day

Posted on November 26, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “Some words live in my throatBreeding like adders. Others know sun” — Audre Lorde / “Coal” “Life is nothing how he expected it would be when he was young and living under the … Continue reading →

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your voice may

Posted on November 25, 2023 by istsfor manity

persuasion clearly displayed dear citizen— uncover your dusty radios you are two billfolds shy and your locutions are broken in the froth of the bulldozer black and yellow cysts, and marshmallow wheat sideswipes remain your wheels will be removed from … Continue reading →

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fifty clichés overlong

Posted on November 24, 2023 by istsfor manity

house unstable drift the globe on a pickaxeannotate your work with carcassesall palpitation and courthouses your peroration had the lithographtenderness of tenterhooks you play the gamelan tunedto the seventh tone and fiftyclichés overlong you gave thanks to the wrongideology / … Continue reading →

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