Tag Archives: Nonfiction

like coquina rock

Posted on April 3, 2024 by istsfor manity

Under the Sky It’s like coquina rockIt’s like Barbara wroteIt’s all ridges and teethWaitingWaitingWaiting to take a layer of skinLike a slice of oblongataLike other lower brain sectionsLike the Shell sign superimposedOver the Chevron chevronLike the freedom tower buildingCubans called … Continue reading →

want to help

Posted on April 1, 2024 by istsfor manity

When Your Watch Eavesdrops on Your Conversation, Unbeckoned, and Intrudes with Pronouncements What I’m Reading: It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast … Continue reading →

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i know grief

Posted on March 31, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week I need to speak about living roomwhere the land is not bullied and beaten toa tombstone — June Jordan / “Moving towards Home” In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt remarked that we repeat … Continue reading →

are losing time

Posted on March 30, 2024 by istsfor manity

patho-cronismos haiku ice caps disappearthe earth’s rotation slows downwe are losing time What I’m Reading: Climate change is starting to alter how humans keep time. An analysis published in Nature on 27 March has predicted that melting ice caps are … Continue reading →

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in this (my) neighborhood pt. 57

Posted on March 27, 2024 by istsfor manity

What I’m Reading: The bicycle wheel is one of the strongest of all human contrivances, capable of supporting approximately four hundred times its own weight. In theory, a buffalo could pedal a bike without the wheels buckling under the load. … Continue reading →

makes no difference

Posted on March 24, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week If God is a man, he could never understand the mundane threats women experience every single day of our lives. — Bora Chung / “Maria, Gratia Plena” / Your Utopia When the warming ocean … Continue reading →

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resistance and liberation

Posted on March 18, 2024 by istsfor manity

Best Thing I Read This Morning Modern racism feeds off self-interest and individualism. Prejudice is an argument that explains why some live in comfort and others do not. Mass consumerism is an empty, soulless utopia of more, more, and more, … Continue reading →

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do go careening

Posted on March 17, 2024 by istsfor manity

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week The only rule of travel is,Don’t come back the way you went.Come a new way …There is no question I am someone starving.There is no question I am making this journey to find out … Continue reading →

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praise for thee (redux)

Posted on March 16, 2024 by istsfor manity

Praise for thee istsfor manity reader: “I suffered from a severe case of leopard spotting, it led to a loss of jobs, family, and friends. Reading the thee istsfor manity reader every morning was directly responsible for my adding 20 lbs. of muscle … Continue reading →

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ice mommy malone

Posted on March 15, 2024 by istsfor manity

found voicemail tanscription blues . . . do not use the toilet and flush with the reserve water held in the tank or water that has been saved in a bucket or nearby tub no flushing UNT5IL the end of … Continue reading →

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