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The Cobalt Everyone on tiny purple microdots is encouraged to call the quasar, and if you get no answer please call the event horizon. The DMT sequence transports have been established. All galactic envoys and space cadets are registered for … Continue reading →

Letter Never Sent I was gas huffing one afternoon, by the train tracks near the smelter, trying to shotgun iso nitrite through my paint gun and boom — whoosh! — it hit me. It was a wrap, and on came … Continue reading →

Two Views: A Cut-Up Bedtime Story I. X.’s home was a shambles: piles of amber eyes, clouds of fleas and other debris, the ritual heads against our legs; red bodies were discovered – strong and sharp – in the refrigerator’s … Continue reading →

Sangfroid I-IV i.  The Ashen Landscape “He’s got what?  Days left?  I don’t want to be there when he dies.” “Sangfroid.” “I’m cold-blooded?” “You didn’t wish to come back to the village — to the sea?” “I see… a Rothko — canted, a … Continue reading →

Havana Bouncy Ball It’s a Havana bouncy ball… a buena Havana bouncy ball… una bola Habanera rebotante… say Havana bouncy ball! Florence Shaw is going on and on about all manner of global cities’ bouncy balls — except Havana bouncy … Continue reading →

Another found art treasure found inside a used $1.00 copy of Melville’s Moby-Dick. “Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, … Continue reading →

Cease to Resist My pantaloons are full of persistence at the edge of insistence. This is an instance of passionate persuasion — perfectly pitted prior to priapic penitence which is pertinent to the power of poseurs in preprandial punctuality of … Continue reading →

Billingsgate and Balderdash You are like the tuber of calcaneous, necessary but non-articulating. Without you there is no ambulating me… The things you’ve said to me in your gasps and low moans: “Starting rotation from blackbird…” “They transferred me to … Continue reading →

“A Thanksgiving Prayer” by William S. Burroughs There’s no improving on thee Thanksgiving classic, so I’ll repost the great “Uncle Bill” as I did last Thanksgiving day — just in case you didn’t drop by last year. Again, thank you … Continue reading →

Bluetoothing the Novel Maple bacon cheddar pizza, I say, repeating what she just said to me. I need a snack soon, she says. A swoony-jazzy song plays like it’s 1967– remember the smarmy song playing in The Graduate when Bancroft … Continue reading →