Tag Archives: Fiction

please sister please

Posted on January 4, 2024 by istsfor manity

The Madcap Rasps She spills a cup of lukewarm spasmodic hate on the splotchy record cover. A monocle of Earl floats on The Madcap Laughs, and catches a waver of dim sunlight. This is the stuff of irritation. This is … Continue reading →

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seven blisters smooth

Posted on January 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

Echo Elegy (Tanka) We bleed salt and ice—Mournful echoes of glaciers—Seven sunburns deep,We lance seven blisters smooth:Heat domes in the skin-light dawn. What I’m Reading: “And if the urgency of a subject were indeed a criterion of its seriousness, then, … Continue reading →

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is this on

Posted on January 2, 2024 by istsfor manity

Mainlining Extinction An overheated tragedy unspoolingin a slow motion, so obscene—so perverse—in its deathly insistence,and the players moving aboutas if in a deep pool of molasses.What gives? Why this suicidal main-lining extinction by heat, drought,famine, forced migration, acidification & flood? … Continue reading →

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do we pivot

Posted on January 1, 2024 by istsfor manity

Desperate Things should be betterDesperately so—We are running it into the groundWe should be betterDesperately so—Yet we can’t help ourselvesHow do we pivot?How do we break this downward spiral? A new year.A new beginning? Desperately neededDesperately so— Happy happy joy … Continue reading →

a local event

Posted on December 31, 2023 by istsfor manity

The Best Stuff I Read This Week “When you have no future, you vote for the past.” — Georgi Gospodinov / Time Shelter “The idea of managing energy use and controlling greenhouse gas emissions was anathema to the neoliberal economists … Continue reading →

tiny sense (erasures)

Posted on December 30, 2023 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “Today I decide to die and don’t because of the dog’s heft at the end of the bed … I envy the dead their past-tense bodies.” — Erin Marie Lynch / “FIGURE [?]” / Removal Acts

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death at 5:26

Posted on December 29, 2023 by istsfor manity

Hellish (redux) I forget what the final word is. Time fog is hellish. What more do you require on the day of your death at 5:26 am? What I’m Reading: “There were moments of beauty here and thereEverything ends, and … Continue reading →

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away the nightmare

Posted on December 28, 2023 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: “God is not dead. God has forgotten. God has dementia.” — Georgi Gospodinov / Time Shelter

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the exorcism matinée

Posted on December 27, 2023 by istsfor manity

Tied Up Wrong A bluebell crack. The storybook matador lost in last week’s storm. Like a drone cyclone of hothouse hornets, come inklings of nuclear enrichment here and there—not good places, but nowhere is good for instant vaporization. I’m in … Continue reading →

shaman life hacks

Posted on December 26, 2023 by istsfor manity

Détentes (redux) There’s a tool they use to set things right. But it won’t protect them from the bitter cold of a nighttime swim through the shark infested straits. A tool of last resort — shaman life hacks! Tabernacle huckster butters! And us! We. … Continue reading →

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